Method for receiving system information in wireless communication system that supports narrowband IoT and apparatus for the same

ABSTRACT

A method for receiving downlink data in a wireless communication system supporting a Narrow Band (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT), the method performed by a terminal comprising: receiving a narrowband synchronization signal (NBSS) on a first NB-IoT carrier from a base station; acquiring, based on the NBSS, time synchronization and frequency synchronization with the base station; receiving the system information related to the NB-IoT on the first NB-IoT carrier from the base station; being assigned a second NB-IoT carrier from the base station; and receiving the downlink data on at least one of the first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoT carrier from the base station.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), this application claims the benefit ofU.S. Provisional Patent Application Nos. 62/300,076, filed on Feb. 26,2016, 62/354,827, filed on Jun. 27, 2016, 62/356,508, filed on Jun. 29,2016, and 62/304,315, filed on Mar. 6, 2016, the contents of which areall hereby incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to wireless communication systems thatsupport the narrow band IoT, and more particularly, to a method forreceiving system information in a wireless communication system thatsupports the narrow band IoT and an apparatus for the same.

Discussion of the Related Art

The mobile communication system is developed to provide the voiceservice while guaranteeing the activity of a user. However, the mobilecommunication system is extended to the data service in addition to thevoice service. Currently, since the shortage of resource is caused owingto the explosive traffic increase and users requires higher services,more developed mobile communication system is needed.

The requirement for the next mobile communication system should supportthe acceptance of explosive data traffic increase, the innovativeincrease of transmission rate per user, the acceptance of the number ofconnection devices which are dramatically increased, very low End-to-EndLatency, high energy efficiency. To this end, various techniques havebeen researched such as the Dual Connectivity, the Massive MultipleInput Multiple Output (Massive MIMO), the In-band Full Duplex, theNon-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), the Super wideband support, theDevice Networking, and so on.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An object of the present disclosure is to define additional informationor assistant information for using the legacy LTE CRS in the NB-IoTsystem, and to provide a method for transmitting and receiving the same.

In addition, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a methodfor transmitting and receiving downlink data using multiple NB-IoTcarriers in the NB-IoT system.

In addition, an object of the present disclosure is to provide a methodfor transmitting and receiving N-PSS using eleven subcarriers.

Technical objects of the present invention are not limited to thoseobjects described above; other technical objects not mentioned above canbe clearly understood from what are described below by those skilled inthe art to which the present invention belongs.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for receivingdownlink data performed by a terminal in a wireless communication systemthat supports Narrow Band (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT) includesreceiving a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a base stationthrough a first NB-IoT carrier; acquiring time synchronization andfrequency synchronization with the base station based on the NarrowbandSynchronization Signal; receiving the system information related to theNB-IoT from the base station through the first NB-IoT carrier; beingallocated with a second NB-IoT carrier from the base station; andreceiving downlink data from the base station through at least one ofthe first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoT carrier.

In addition, in the present disclosure, being allocated with the secondNB-IoT carrier from the base station includes receiving information ofthe second NB-IoT carrier from the base station through a high layersignaling.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the information of the secondNB-IoT carrier further includes control information related to a PRBindex of the second NB-IoT carrier.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the control information isinformation that represents a frequency difference between a centerfrequency of the second NB-IoT carrier and a Direct Current (DC).

In addition, in the present disclosure, the control information includes100 state values.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the information of the secondNB-IoT carrier includes at least one of a first information thatrepresents an operation mode of the second NB-IoT carrier or a secondinformation that represents whether the second NB-IoT carrier has a samePhysical Cell ID (PCI) as a legacy carrier.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the first NB-IoT carrier is ananchor PRB, and the second NB-IoT carrier is a configured PRB.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the system information includesat least one of operation mode information that represents an operationmode of the NB-IoT system or a channel raster offset indicator thatrepresents a channel raster offset.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the narrowband synchronizationsignal includes a narrowband primary synchronization signal and anarrowband secondary synchronization signal.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the narrowband is a systembandwidth that corresponds to 1 Physical Resource Block (PRB) of LongTerm Evolution (LTE) system.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the 1 PRB includes 12subcarriers.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the narrowband primarysynchronization signal is received through 11 contiguous subcarriersamong the 12 subcarriers.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the 11 contiguous subcarriersare configured by excluding a specific subcarrier among the 12subcarriers.

In addition, in the present disclosure, the specific subcarrier is asubcarrier having a smallest subcarrier index or a greatest subcarrierindex.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a terminal forreceiving downlink data in a wireless communication system that supportsNarrow Band (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT) includes a Radio Frequency(RF) unit for transmitting and receiving a radio signal; and a processorfor controlling the RF unit, where the processor is configured toperform receiving a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a basestation through a first NB-IoT carrier; acquiring time synchronizationand frequency synchronization with the base station based on theNarrowband Synchronization Signal; receiving the system informationrelated to the NB-IoT from the base station through the first NB-IoTcarrier; being allocated with a second NB-IoT carrier from the basestation; and receiving downlink data from the base station through atleast one of the first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoT carrier.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The accompanying drawings, which are included herein as a part of thedescription for help understanding the present invention, provideembodiments of the present invention, and describe the technicalfeatures of the present invention with the description below.

FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of a radio frame in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid for a downlink slot ina wireless communication system to which the present invention may beapplied.

FIG. 3 illustrates a structure of downlink subframe in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 4 illustrates a structure of uplink subframe in a wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention may be applied.

FIG. 5 illustrates the configuration of a known MIMO communicationsystem.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a channel from a plurality of transmissionantennas to a single reception antenna.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of component carriers and a carrieraggregation in a wireless communication system to which an embodiment ofthe present invention may be applied.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a cell classification in a system thatsupports the carrier aggregation.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure used for an SStransmission in a system that uses a normal cyclic prefix (CP).

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure used for an SStransmission in a system that uses an extended CP.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating two sequences in a logical regionbeing mapped to a physical region by being interleaved.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure to which M-PSS andM-SSS are mapped.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a method for generating M-PSSaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a method for generating M-SSSaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 15 illustrates an example of a method for implementing M-PSS towhich the method proposed in the present disclosure can be applied.

FIG. 16 illustrates an example of an operation system of the NB LTEsystem to which the method proposed in the present disclosure can beapplied.

FIG. 17 illustrates an example of an NB-frame structure with respect to15 kHz subcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

FIG. 18 illustrates an example of an NB-frame structure with respect to3.75 kHz subcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

FIG. 19 illustrates an example of an NB subframe structure in 3.75 kHzsubcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a channel raster offsetfor different system bandwidths proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving system information in the NB-IoT systemproposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 22 illustrates an example of the indices of the PRB that shares thesame legacy CRS sequence index among the even system bandwidth.

FIG. 23 illustrates another example of the indices of the PRB thatshares the same legacy CRS sequence index among the odd systembandwidth.

FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating another example of a method fortransmitting and receiving system information in the NB-IoT systemproposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 25 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving downlink data through multiple NB-IoTcarriers in the NB-IoT system proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 26 illustrates an example of a subcarrier selection method fortransmitting the N-PSS in the even system bandwidth proposed in thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 27 illustrates an example of a subcarrier selection method fortransmitting the N-PSS in the odd system bandwidth proposed in thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 28 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving a narrowband synchronization signal in theNB-IoT system proposed in the present disclosure.

FIG. 29 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communicationapparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Hereafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will bedescribed in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Adetailed description to be disclosed hereinbelow together with theaccompanying drawing is to describe embodiments of the present inventionand not to describe a unique embodiment for carrying out the presentinvention. The detailed description below includes details in order toprovide a complete understanding. However, those skilled in the art knowthat the present invention can be carried out without the details.

In some cases, in order to prevent a concept of the present inventionfrom being ambiguous, known structures and devices may be omitted or maybe illustrated in a block diagram format based on core function of eachstructure and device.

In the specification, a base station means a terminal node of a networkdirectly performing communication with a terminal. In the presentdocument, specific operations described to be performed by the basestation may be performed by an upper node of the base station in somecases. That is, it is apparent that in the network constituted bymultiple network nodes including the base station, various operationsperformed for communication with the terminal may be performed by thebase station or other network nodes other than the base station. A basestation (BS) may be generally substituted with terms such as a fixedstation, Node B, evolved-NodeB (eNB), a base transceiver system (BTS),an access point (AP), and the like. Further, a ‘terminal’ may be fixedor movable and be substituted with terms such as user equipment (UE), amobile station (MS), a user terminal (UT), a mobile subscriber station(MSS), a subscriber station (SS), an dvanced mobile station (AMS), awireless terminal (WT), a Machine-Type Communication (MTC) device, aMachine-to-Machine (M2M) device, a Device-to-Device (D2D) device, andthe like.

Hereinafter, a downlink means communication from the base station to theterminal and an uplink means communication from the terminal to the basestation. In the downlink, a transmitter may be a part of the basestation and a receiver may be a part of the terminal. In the uplink, thetransmitter may be a part of the terminal and the receiver may be a partof the base station.

Specific terms used in the following description are provided to helpappreciating the present invention and the use of the specific terms maybe modified into other forms within the scope without departing from thetechnical spirit of the present invention.

The following technology may be used in various wireless access systems,such as code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency divisionmultiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), orthogonalfrequency division multiple access (OFDMA), single carrier-FDMA(SC-FDMA), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and the like. The CDMAmay be implemented by radio technology universal terrestrial radioaccess (UTRA) or CDMA2000. The TDMA may be implemented by radiotechnology such as Global System for Mobile communications (GSM)/GeneralPacket Radio Service (GPRS)/Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution(EDGE). The OFDMA may be implemented as radio technology such as IEEE802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802-20, E-UTRA (Evolved UTRA),and the like. The UTRA is a part of a universal mobile telecommunicationsystem (UMTS). 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) long termevolution (LTE) as a part of an evolved UMTS (E-UMTS) using evolved-UMTSterrestrial radio access (E-UTRA) adopts the OFDMA in a downlink and theSC-FDMA in an uplink. LTE-advanced (A) is an evolution of the 3GPP LTE.

The embodiments of the present invention may be based on standarddocuments disclosed in at least one of IEEE 802, 3GPP, and 3GPP2 whichare the wireless access systems. That is, steps or parts which are notdescribed to definitely show the technical spirit of the presentinvention among the embodiments of the present invention may be based onthe documents. Further, all terms disclosed in the document may bedescribed by the standard document.

3GPP LTE/LTE-A is primarily described for clear description, buttechnical features of the present invention are not limited thereto.

General System

FIG. 1 illustrates a structure a radio frame in a wireless communicationsystem to which the present invention can be applied.

In 3GPP LTE/LTE-A, radio frame structure type 1 may be applied tofrequency division duplex (FDD) and radio frame structure type 2 may beapplied to time division duplex (TDD) are supported.

FIG. 1(a) exemplifies radio frame structure type 1. The radio frame isconstituted by 10 subframes. One subframe is constituted by 2 slots in atime domain. A time required to transmit one subframe is referred to asa transmissions time interval (TTI). For example, the length of onesubframe may be 1 ms and the length of one slot may be 0.5 ms.

One slot includes a plurality of orthogonal frequency divisionmultiplexing (OFDM) symbols in the time domain and includes multipleresource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain. In 3GPP LTE, since OFDMA isused in downlink, the OFDM symbol is used to express one symbol period.The OFDM symbol may be one SC-FDMA symbol or symbol period. The resourceblock is a resource allocation wise and includes a plurality ofconsecutive subcarriers in one slot.

FIG. 1(b) illustrates frame structure type 2. Radio frame type 2 isconstituted by 2 half frames, each half frame is constituted by 5subframes, a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), andan uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS), and one subframe among them isconstituted by 2 slots. The DwPTS is used for initial cell discovery,synchronization, or channel estimation in a terminal. The UpPTS is usedfor channel estimation in a base station and to match uplinktransmission synchronization of the terminal. The guard period is aperiod for removing interference which occurs in uplink due tomulti-path delay of a downlink signal between the uplink and thedownlink.

In frame structure type 2 of a TDD system, an uplink-downlinkconfiguration is a rule indicating whether the uplink and the downlinkare allocated (alternatively, reserved) with respect to all subframes.Table 1 shows he uplink-downlink configuration.

TABLE 1 Downlink- Uplink- to-Uplink Downlink Switch-point Subframenumber configuration periodicity 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 5 ms D S U U U DS U U U 1 5 ms D S U U D D S U U D 2 5 ms D S U D D D S U D D 3 10 ms DS U U U D D D D D 4 10 ms D S U D D D D D D D 5 10 ms D S U D D D D D DD 6 5 ms D S U U U D S U U D

Referring to Table 1, for each subframe in a radio frame, ‘D’ representsa subframe for a downlink transmission, ‘U’ represent a subframe for anuplink transmission, ‘S’ represents a special subframe that includesthree types, a Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), a Guard Period (GP) andan Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS).

The DwPTS is used for an initial cell search, synchronization or channelestimation in a terminal. The UpPTS is used for the channel estimationin a BS and synchronizing an uplink transmission synchronization of aterminal. The GP is a period for removing interference occurred inuplink owing to multi-path latency of a downlink signal between uplinkand downlink.

Each subframe i includes slot 2i and slot 2i+1 of T_slot=15360*T_s=0.5ms length.

There are seven types of uplink-downlink configurations and the positionand/or number of downlink subframe, special subframe and uplink subframeare different for each configuration.

The time switched from downlink to uplink or the time switched fromuplink to downlink is referred to as a switching point. The periodicityof the switching point means a period in which the phenomenon of unlinksubframe and downlink subframe being switched is repeated in the samepattern, and both 5 ms and 10 ms are supported. In the case of a periodof 5 ms downlink-uplink switching point, the special subframe(s) isexisted in every half-frame, and in the case of a period of 10 msdownlink-uplink switching point, the special subframe(s) is existed inthe first half-frame only.

For all configurations, 0th, fifth subframes and the DwPTS are durationsonly for a downlink transmission. The subframe directly following theUpPTS and subframe are durations for an uplink transmission always.

Such an uplink-downlink configuration is the system information, and maybe known to a BS and a terminal. A BS may notify the change of theuplink-downlink allocation state of a radio frame by transmitting anindex of configuration information only whenever the uplink-downlinkconfiguration information is changed. In addition, the configurationinformation is a sort of downlink control information and may betransmitted through a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) likeother scheduling information, or it is the broadcast information and maybe commonly transmitted to all terminals in a cell through a broadcastchannel.

Table 2 represents a configuration (lengths of DwPTS/GP/UpPTS) of aspecial subframe.

TABLE 2 Normal cyclic prefix in downlink Extended cyclic prefix indownlink UpPTS UpPTS Normal Extended Normal Extended Special cycliccyclic cyclic cyclic subframe prefix prefix prefix prefix configurationDwPTS in uplink in uplink DwPTS in uplink in uplink 0  6592 · T_(s) 2192· T_(s) 2560 · T_(s)  7680 · T_(s) 2192 · T_(s) 2560 · T_(s) 1 19760 ·T_(s) 20480 · T_(s) 2 21952 · T_(s) 23040 · T_(s) 3 24144 · T_(s) 25600· T_(s) 4 26336 · T_(s)  7680 · T_(s) 4384 · T_(s) 5120 · T_(s) 5  6592· T_(s) 4384 · T_(s) 5120 · T_(s) 20480 · T_(s) 6 19760 · T_(s) 23040 ·T_(s) 7 21952 · T_(s) — — — 8 24144 · T_(s) — — —

The radio frame structure according to an example of FIG. 1 is just anexample, but the number of subcarriers included in a radio frame, thenumber of slots included in a subframe or the number of OFDM symbolsincluded in a slot may be changed in various manners.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a resource grid for one downlink slotin the wireless communication system to which the present invention canbe applied.

Referring to FIG. 2, one downlink slot includes the plurality of OFDMsymbols in the time domain. Herein, it is exemplarily described that onedownlink slot includes 7 OFDM symbols and one resource block includes 12subcarriers in the frequency domain, but the present invention is notlimited thereto.

Each element on the resource grid is referred to as a resource elementand one resource block includes 12×7 resource elements. The number ofresource blocks included in the downlink slot, NDL is subordinated to adownlink transmission bandwidth.

A structure of the uplink slot may be the same as that of the downlinkslot.

FIG. 3 illustrates a structure of a downlink subframe in the wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 3, a maximum of three fore OFDM symbols in the firstslot of the sub frame is a control region to which control channels areallocated and residual OFDM symbols is a data region to which a physicaldownlink shared channel (PDSCH) is allocated. Examples of the downlinkcontrol channel used in the 3GPP LTE include a Physical Control FormatIndicator Channel (PCFICH), a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH),a Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH), and the like.

The PFCICH is transmitted in the first OFDM symbol of the subframe andtransports information on the number (that is, the size of the controlregion) of OFDM symbols used for transmitting the control channels inthe subframe. The PHICH which is a response channel to the uplinktransports an Acknowledgement (ACK)/Not-Acknowledgement (NACK) signalfor a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). Control informationtransmitted through a PDCCH is referred to as downlink controlinformation (DCI). The downlink control information includes uplinkresource allocation information, downlink resource allocationinformation, or an uplink transmission (Tx) power control command for apredetermined terminal group.

The PDCCH may transport A resource allocation and transmission format(also referred to as a downlink grant) of a downlink shared channel(DL-SCH), resource allocation information (also referred to as an uplinkgrant) of an uplink shared channel (UL-SCH), paging information in apaging channel (PCH), system information in the DL-SCH, resourceallocation for an upper-layer control message such as a random accessresponse transmitted in the PDSCH, an aggregate of transmission powercontrol commands for individual terminals in the predetermined terminalgroup, a voice over IP (VoIP). A plurality of PDCCHs may be transmittedin the control region and the terminal may monitor the plurality ofPDCCHs. The PDCCH is constituted by one or an aggregate of a pluralityof continuous control channel elements (CCEs). The CCE is a logicalallocation wise used to provide a coding rate depending on a state of aradio channel to the PDCCH. The CCEs correspond to a plurality ofresource element groups. A format of the PDCCH and a bit number ofusable PDCCH are determined according to an association between thenumber of CCEs and the coding rate provided by the CCEs.

The base station determines the PDCCH format according to the DCI to betransmitted and attaches the control information to a cyclic redundancycheck (CRC) to the control information. The CRC is masked with a uniqueidentifier (referred to as a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI))according to an owner or a purpose of the PDCCH. In the case of a PDCCHfor a specific terminal, the unique identifier of the terminal, forexample, a cell-RNTI (C-RNTI) may be masked with the CRC. Alternatively,in the case of a PDCCH for the paging message, a paging indicationidentifier, for example, the CRC may be masked with a paging-RNTI(P-RNTI). In the case of a PDCCH for the system information, in moredetail, a system information block (SIB), the CRC may be masked with asystem information identifier, that is, a system information (SI)-RNTI.The CRC may be masked with a random access (RA)-RNTI in order toindicate the random access response which is a response to transmissionof a random access preamble.

FIG. 4 illustrates a structure of an uplink subframe in the wirelesscommunication system to which the present invention can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 4, the uplink subframe may be divided into the controlregion and the data region in a frequency domain. A physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH) transporting uplink control information isallocated to the control region. A physical uplink shared channel(PUSCH) transporting user data is allocated to the data region. Oneterminal does not simultaneously transmit the PUCCH and the PUSCH inorder to maintain a single carrier characteristic.

A resource block (RB) pair in the subframe are allocated to the PUCCHfor one terminal. RBs included in the RB pair occupy differentsubcarriers in two slots, respectively. The RB pair allocated to thePUCCH frequency-hops in a slot boundary.

Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO)

An MIMO technology uses multiple transmitting (Tx) antennas and multiplereceiving (Rx) antennas by breaking from generally one transmittingantenna and one receiving antenna up to now. In other words, the MIMOtechnology is a technology for achieving capacity increment orcapability enhancement by using a multiple input multiple output antennaat a transmitter side or a receiver side of the wireless communicationsystem. Hereinafter, “MIMO” will be referred to as “multiple inputmultiple output antenna”.

In more detail, the MIMO technology does not depend on one antenna pathin order to receive one total message and completes total data bycollecting a plurality of data pieces received through multipleantennas. Consequently, the MIMO technology may increase a data transferrate within in a specific system range and further, increase the systemrange through a specific data transfer rate.

In next-generation mobile communication, since a still higher datatransfer rate than the existing mobile communication is required, it isanticipated that an efficient multiple input multiple output technologyis particularly required. In such a situation, an MIMO communicationtechnology is a next-generation mobile communication technology whichmay be widely used in a mobile communication terminal and a relay andattracts a concern as a technology to overcome a limit of a transmissionamount of another mobile communication according to a limit situationdue to data communication extension, and the like.

Meanwhile, the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology amongvarious transmission efficiency improvement technologies which have beenresearched in recent years as a method that may epochally improve acommunication capacity and transmission and reception performancewithout additional frequency allocation or power increment has thelargest attention in recent years.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of a general multiple input multipleoutput (MIMO) communication system.

Referring to FIG. 5, when the number of transmitting antennas increasesto NT and the number of receiving antennas increases to NR at the sametime, since a theoretical channel transmission capacity increases inproportion to the number of antennas unlike a case using multipleantennas only in a transmitter or a receiver, a transfer rate may beimproved and frequency efficiency may be epchally improved. In thiscase, the transfer rate depending on an increase in channel transmissioncapacity may theoretically increase to a value acquired by multiplying amaximum transfer rate (Ro) in the case using one antenna by a rateincrease rate (Ri) given below.R _(i)=min(N _(T) ,N _(R))  [Equation 1]

That is, for example, in an MIMO communication system using fourtransmitting antennas and four receiving antennas, a transfer rate whichis four times higher than a single antenna system may be acquired.

Such an MIMO antenna technology may be divided into a spatial diversityscheme increasing transmission reliability by using symbols passingthrough various channel paths and a spatial multiplexing schemeimproving the transfer rate by simultaneously transmitting multiple datasymbols by using multiple transmitting antennas. Further, a researchinto a scheme that intends to appropriately acquire respectiveadvantages by appropriately combining two schemes is also a field whichhas been researched in recent years.

The respective schemes will be described below in more detail.

First, the spatial diversity scheme includes a space-time block codingseries and a space-time Trelis coding series scheme simultaneously usinga diversity gain and a coding gain. In general, the Trelis is excellentin bit error rate enhancement performance and code generation degree offreedom, but the space-time block code is simple in operationalcomplexity. In the case of such a spatial diversity gain, an amountcorresponding to a multiple (NT×NR) of the number (NT) of transmittingantennas and the number (NR) of receiving antennas may be acquired.

Second, the spatial multiplexing technique is a method that transmitsdifferent data arrays in the respective transmitting antennas and inthis case, mutual interference occurs among data simultaneouslytransmitted from the transmitter in the receiver. The receiver receivesthe data after removing the interference by using an appropriate signalprocessing technique. A noise removing scheme used herein includes amaximum likelihood detection (MLD) receiver, a zero-forcing (ZF)receiver, a minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver, a diagonal-belllaboratories layered space-time (D-BLAST), a vertical-bell laboratorieslayered space-time), and the like and in particular, when channelinformation may be known in the transmitter side, a singular valuedecomposition (SVD) scheme, and the like may be used.

Third, a technique combining the space diversity and the spatialmultiplexing may be provided. When only the spatial diversity gain isacquired, the performance enhancement gain depending on an increase indiversity degree is gradually saturated and when only the spatialmultiplexing gain is acquired, the transmission reliability deterioratesin the radio channel. Schemes that acquire both two gains while solvingthe problem have been researched and the schemes include a space-timeblock code (Double-STTD), a space-time BICM (STBICM), and the like.

In order to describe a communication method in the MIMO antenna systemdescribed above by a more detailed method, when the communication methodis mathematically modeled, the mathematical modeling may be shown asbelow.

First, it is assumed that NT transmitting antennas and NR receivingantennas are present as illustrated in FIG. 5.

First, in respect to a transmission signal, when NT transmittingantennas are provided, since the maximum number of transmittableinformation is NT, NT may be expressed as a vector given below.s=[s ₁ ,s ₂ , . . . ,s _(N) _(T) ]^(T)  [Equation 2]

Meanwhile, transmission power may be different in the respectivetransmission information s1, s2, . . . , sNT and in this case, when therespective transmission power is P₁, P₂, . . . , PNT, the transmissioninformation of which the transmission power is adjusted may be expressedas a vector given below.ŝ=[ŝ ₁ ,ŝ ₂ , . . . ŝ _(N) _(T) ]^(T) =[P ₁ s ₁ ,P ₂ s ₂ , . . . ,P _(N)_(T) s _(N) _(T) ]^(T)  [Equation 3]

Further, ŝ may be expressed as described below as a diagonal matrix P ofthe transmission power.

$\begin{matrix}{\hat{s} = {{\begin{bmatrix}P_{1} & \; & \; & 0 \\\; & P_{2} & \; & \; \\\; & \; & \ddots & \; \\0 & \; & \; & P_{N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}s_{1} \\s_{2} \\\vdots \\s_{N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}} = {Ps}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 4} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Meanwhile, the information vector ŝ of which the transmission power isadjusted is multiplied by a weight matrix W to constitute NTtransmission signals x1, x2, . . . , xNT which are actually transmitted.Herein, the weight matrix serves to appropriately distribute thetransmission information to the respective antennas according to atransmission channel situation, and the like. The transmission signalsx1, x2, . . . , xNT may be expressed as below by using a vector x.

$\begin{matrix}{x = {\left\lbrack \begin{matrix}x_{1} \\x_{2} \\\vdots \\x_{i} \\\vdots \\x_{N_{T}}\end{matrix} \right\rbrack = {{\begin{bmatrix}w_{11} & w_{12} & \ldots & w_{1\; N_{T}} \\w_{21} & w_{22} & \ldots & w_{2\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\w_{i\; 1} & w_{i\; 2} & \ldots & w_{i\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\w_{N_{T}\; 1} & w_{N_{T}\; 2} & \ldots & w_{N_{T}\; N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}{\hat{s}}_{1} \\{\hat{s}}_{2} \\\vdots \\{\hat{s}}_{j} \\\vdots \\{\hat{s}}_{N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}} = {{W\hat{s}} = {WPs}}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 5} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Herein, wij represents a weight between the i-th transmitting antennaand j-th transmission information and W represents the weight as thematrix. The matrix W is called a weight matrix or a precoding matrix.

Meanwhile, the transmission signal x described above may be divided intotransmission signals in a case using the spatial diversity and a caseusing the spatial multiplexing.

In the case using the spatial multiplexing, since different signals aremultiplexed and sent, all elements of an information vector s havedifferent values, while when the spatial diversity is used, since thesame signal is sent through multiple channel paths, all of the elementsof the information vector s have the same value.

Of course, a method mixing the spatial multiplexing and the spatialdiversity may also be considered. That is, fro example, a case may alsobe considered, which transmits the same signal by using the spatialdiversity through three transmitting antennas and different signals aresent by the spatial multiplexing through residual transmitting antennas.

Next, when NR receiving antennas are provided, received signals y₁, y₂,. . . , yNR of the respective antennas are expressed as a vector y asdescribed below.y=[y ₁ ,y ₂ , . . . ,y _(N) _(R) ]^(T)  [Equation 6]

Meanwhile, in the case of modeling the channel in the MIMO antennacommunication system, respective channels may be distinguished accordingto transmitting and receiving antenna indexes and a channel passingthrough a receiving antenna i from a transmitting antenna j will berepresented as hij. Herein, it is noted that in the case of the order ofthe index of hij, the receiving antenna index is earlier and thetransmitting antenna index is later.

The multiple channels are gathered into one to be expressed even asvector and matrix forms. An example of expression of the vector will bedescribed below.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a channel from multiple transmittingantennas to one receiving antenna.

As illustrated in FIG. 6, a channel which reaches receiving antenna Ifrom a total of NT transmitting antennas may be expressed as below.h _(i) ^(T) =└h _(i1) ,h _(i2) , . . . ,h _(iN) _(T) ┘  [Equation 7]

Further, all of channels passing through NR receiving antennas from NTtransmitting antennas may be shown as below through matrix expressionshown in Equation given above.

$\begin{matrix}{H = {\begin{bmatrix}h_{1}^{T} \\h_{2}^{T} \\\vdots \\h_{i}^{T} \\\vdots \\h_{N_{R}}^{T}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}h_{11} & h_{12} & \ldots & h_{1\; N_{T}} \\h_{21} & h_{22} & \ldots & h_{2\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\h_{i\; 1} & h_{i\; 2} & \ldots & h_{i\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\h_{N_{R}\; 1} & h_{N_{R}\; 2} & \ldots & h_{N_{R}\; N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 8} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Meanwhile, since additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is added afterpassing through a channel matrix H given above in an actual channel,white noises n₁, n₂, . . . , nNR added to NR receiving antennas,respectively are expressed as below.n=[n ₁ ,n ₂ , . . . ,n _(N) _(R) ]^(T)  [Equation 9]

Each of the transmission signal, the reception signal, the channel, andthe white noise in the MIMO antenna communication system may beexpressed through a relationship given below by modeling thetransmission signal, the reception signal, the channel, and the whitenoise.

$\begin{matrix}{H = {{{{\begin{bmatrix}y_{1} \\y_{2} \\\vdots \\y_{i} \\\vdots \\y_{N_{R}}\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}h_{11} & h_{12} & \ldots & h_{1\; N_{T}} \\h_{21} & h_{22} & \ldots & h_{2\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\h_{i\; 1} & h_{i\; 2} & \ldots & h_{i\; N_{T}} \\\vdots & \; & \ddots & \; \\h_{N_{R}\; 1} & h_{N_{R}\; 2} & \ldots & h_{N_{R}\; N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}}\begin{bmatrix}x_{1} \\x_{2} \\\vdots \\x_{j} \\\vdots \\x_{N_{T}}\end{bmatrix}} + \begin{bmatrix}n_{1} \\n_{2} \\\vdots \\n_{j} \\\vdots \\n_{N_{R}}\end{bmatrix}} = {{Hx} + n}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 10} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

The numbers of rows and columns of the channel matrix H representing thestate of the channel are determined by the numbers of transmitting andreceiving antennas. In the case of the channel matrix H, the number ofrows becomes equivalent to NR which is the number of receiving antennasand the number of columns becomes equivalent to NR which is the numberof transmitting antennas. That is, the channel matrix H becomes an NR×NRmatrix.

In general, a rank of the matrix is defined as the minimum number amongthe numbers of independent rows or columns. Therefore, the rank of thematrix may not be larger than the number of rows or columns. As anequation type example, the rank (rank(H)) of the channel matrix H islimited as below.rank(H)≤min(N _(T) ,N _(R))  [Equation 11]

Further, when the matrix is subjected to Eigen value decomposition, therank may be defined as not 0 but the number of Eigen values among theEigen values. By a similar method, when the rank is subjected tosingular value decomposition, the rank may be defined as not 0 but thenumber of singular values. Accordingly, a physical meaning of the rankin the channel matrix may be the maximum number which may send differentinformation in a given channel.

In the present specification, a ‘rank’ for MIMO transmission representsthe number of paths to independently transmit the signal at a specifictime and in a specific frequency resource and ‘the number of layers’represents the number of signal streams transmitted through each path.In general, since the transmitter side transmits layers of the numbercorresponding to the number of ranks used for transmitting the signal,the rank has the same meaning as the number layers if not particularlymentioned.

Carrier Aggregation

A communication environment considered in embodiments of the presentinvention includes multi-carrier supporting environments. That is, amulti-carrier system or a carrier aggregation system used in the presentinvention means a system that aggregates and uses one or more componentcarriers (CCs) having a smaller bandwidth smaller than a target band atthe time of configuring a target wideband in order to support awideband.

In the present invention, multi-carriers mean aggregation of(alternatively, carrier aggregation) of carriers and in this case, theaggregation of the carriers means both aggregation between continuouscarriers and aggregation between non-contiguous carriers. Further, thenumber of component carriers aggregated between the downlink and theuplink may be differently set. A case in which the number of downlinkcomponent carriers (hereinafter, referred to as ‘DL CC’) and the numberof uplink component carriers (hereinafter, referred to as ‘UL CC’) arethe same as each other is referred to as symmetric aggregation and acase in which the number of downlink component carriers and the numberof uplink component carriers are different from each other is referredto as asymmetric aggregation. The carrier aggregation may be usedmixedly with a term such as the carrier aggregation, the bandwidthaggregation, spectrum aggregation, or the like.

The carrier aggregation configured by combining two or more componentcarriers aims at supporting up to a bandwidth of 100 MHz in the LTE-Asystem. When one or more carriers having the bandwidth than the targetband are combined, the bandwidth of the carriers to be combined may belimited to a bandwidth used in the existing system in order to maintainbackward compatibility with the existing IMT system. For example, theexisting 3GPP LTE system supports bandwidths of 1.4, 3, 5, 10, 15, and20 MHz and a 3GPP LTE-advanced system (that is, LTE-A) may be configuredto support a bandwidth larger than 20 MHz by using on the bandwidth forcompatibility with the existing system. Further, the carrier aggregationsystem used in the preset invention may be configured to support thecarrier aggregation by defining a new bandwidth regardless of thebandwidth used in the existing system.

The LTE-A system uses a concept of the cell in order to manage a radioresource.

The carrier aggregation environment may be called a multi-cellenvironment. The cell is defined as a combination of a pair of adownlink resource (DL CC) and an uplink resource (UL CC), but the uplinkresource is not required. Therefore, the cell may be constituted by onlythe downlink resource or both the downlink resource and the uplinkresource. When a specific terminal has only one configured serving cell,the cell may have one DL CC and one UL CC, but when the specificterminal has two or more configured serving cells, the cell has DL CCsas many as the cells and the number of UL CCs may be equal to or smallerthan the number of DL CCs.

Alternatively, contrary to this, the DL CC and the UL CC may beconfigured. That is, when the specific terminal has multiple configuredserving cells, a carrier aggregation environment having UL CCs more thanDL CCs may also be supported. That is, the carrier aggregation may beappreciated as aggregation of two or more cells having different carrierfrequencies (center frequencies). Herein, the described ‘cell’ needs tobe distinguished from a cell as an area covered by the base stationwhich is generally used.

The cell used in the LTE-A system includes a primary cell (PCell) and asecondary cell (SCell. The P cell and the S cell may be used as theserving cell. In a terminal which is in an RRC_CONNECTED state, but doesnot have the configured carrier aggregation or does not support thecarrier aggregation, only one serving constituted by only the P cell ispresent. On the contrary, in a terminal which is in the RRC_CONNECTEDstate and has the configured carrier aggregation, one or more servingcells may be present and the P cell and one or more S cells are includedin all serving cells.

The serving cell (P cell and S cell) may be configured through an RRCparameter. PhysCellId as a physical layer identifier of the cell hasinteger values of 0 to 503. SCellIndex as a short identifier used toidentify the S cell has integer values of 1 to 7. ServCellIndex as ashort identifier used to identify the serving cell (P cell or S cell)has the integer values of 0 to 7. The value of 0 is applied to the Pcell and SCellIndex is previously granted for application to the S cell.That is, a cell having a smallest cell ID (alternatively, cell index) inServCellIndex becomes the P cell.

The P cell means a cell that operates on a primary frequency(alternatively, primary CC). The terminal may be used to perform aninitial connection establishment process or a connectionre-establishment process and may be designated as a cell indicatedduring a handover process. Further, the P cell means a cell whichbecomes the center of control associated communication among servingcells configured in the carrier aggregation environment. That is, theterminal may be allocated with and transmit the PUCCH only in the P cellthereof and use only the P cell to acquire the system information orchange a monitoring procedure. An evolved universal terrestrial radioaccess (E-UTRAN) may change only the P cell for the handover procedureto the terminal supporting the carrier aggregation environment by usingan RRC connection reconfiguration message (RRCConnectionReconfigutaion)message of an upper layer including mobile control information(mobilityControlInfo).

The S cell means a cell that operates on a secondary frequency(alternatively, secondary CC). Only one P cell may be allocated to aspecific terminal and one or more S cells may be allocated to thespecific terminal. The S cell may be configured after RRC connectionestablishment is achieved and used for providing an additional radioresource. The PUCCH is not present in residual cells other than the Pcell, that is, the S cells among the serving cells configured in thecarrier aggregation environment. The E-UTRAN may provide all systeminformation associated with a related cell which is in an RRC_CONNECTEDstate through a dedicated signal at the time of adding the S cells tothe terminal that supports the carrier aggregation environment. A changeof the system information may be controlled by releasing and adding therelated S cell and in this case, the RRC connection reconfiguration(RRCConnectionReconfigutaion) message of the upper layer may be used.The E-UTRAN may perform having different parameters for each terminalrather than broadcasting in the related S cell.

After an initial security activation process starts, the E-UTRAN addsthe S cells to the P cell initially configured during the connectionestablishment process to configure a network including one or more Scells. In the carrier aggregation environment, the P cell and the S cellmay operate as the respective component carriers. In an embodimentdescribed below, the primary component carrier (PCC) may be used as thesame meaning as the P cell and the secondary component carrier (SCC) maybe used as the same meaning as the S cell.

FIG. 7 illustrates examples of a component carrier and carrieraggregation in the wireless communication system to which the presentinvention can be applied.

FIG. 7a illustrates a single carrier structure used in an LTE system.The component carrier includes the DL CC and the UL CC. One componentcarrier may have a frequency range of 20 MHz.

FIG. 7b illustrates a carrier aggregation structure used in the LTEsystem. In the case of FIG. 7b , a case is illustrated, in which threecomponent carriers having a frequency magnitude of 20 MHz are combined.Each of three DL CCs and three UL CCs is provided, but the number of DLCCs and the number of UL CCs are not limited. In the case of carrieraggregation, the terminal may simultaneously monitor three CCs, andreceive downlink signal/data and transmit uplink signal/data.

When N DL CCs are managed in a specific cell, the network may allocate M(M≤N) DL CCs to the terminal. In this case, the terminal may monitoronly M limited DL CCs and receive the DL signal. Further, the networkgives L (L≤M≤N) DL CCs to allocate a primary DL CC to the terminal andin this case, UE needs to particularly monitor L DL CCs. Such a schememay be similarly applied even to uplink transmission.

A linkage between a carrier frequency (alternatively, DL CC) of thedownlink resource and a carrier frequency (alternatively, UL CC) of theuplink resource may be indicated by an upper-layer message such as theRRC message or the system information. For example, a combination of theDL resource and the UL resource may be configured by a linkage definedby system information block type 2 (SIB2). In detail, the linkage maymean a mapping relationship between the DL CC in which the PDCCHtransporting a UL grant and a UL CC using the UL grant and mean amapping relationship between the DL CC (alternatively, UL CC) in whichdata for the HARQ is transmitted and the UL CC (alternatively, DL CC) inwhich the HARQ ACK/NACK signal is transmitted.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a cell classification in a system thatsupports the carrier aggregation.

Referring to FIG. 8, a configured cell is a cell that should becarrier-merged based on a measurement report among the cells of a BS asshown in FIG. 7, may be configured for each terminal. The configuredcell may reserve a resource for an ACK/NACK transmission for a PDSCHtransmission beforehand. An activated cell is a cell that is configuredto transmit PDSCH/PUSCH actually among the configured cells, andperforms a Channel State Information (CSI) report for the PDSCH/PUSCHtransmission and a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmission. Ade-activated cell is a cell that does not transmit the PDSCH/PUSCHtransmission by a command of BS or a timer operation, may also stop theCSI report and the SRS transmission.

Synchronization Signal/Sequence (SS)

An SS includes a primary (P)-SS and a secondary (S)-SS, and correspondsto a signal used when a cell search is performed.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure used for an SStransmission in a system that uses a normal cyclic prefix (CP). FIG. 10is a diagram illustrating a frame structure used for an SS transmissionin a system that uses an extended CP.

The SS is transmitted in 0th subframe and second slot of the fifthsubframe, respectively, considering 4.6 ms which is a Global System forMobile communications (GSM) frame length for the easiness of aninter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) measurement, and a boundary for thecorresponding radio frame may be detected through the S-SS. The P-SS istransmitted in the last OFDM symbol of the corresponding slot and theS-SS is transmitted in the previous OFDM symbol of the P-SS.

The SS may transmit total 504 physical cell IDs through the combinationof 3 P-SSs and 168 S-SSs. In addition, the SS and the PBCH aretransmitted within 6 RBs at the center of a system bandwidth such that aterminal may detect or decode them regardless of the transmissionbandwidth.

A transmission diversity scheme of the SS is to use a single antennaport only and not separately used in a standard. That is, thetransmission diversity scheme of the SS uses a single antennatransmission or a transmission technique transparent to a terminal(e.g., Precoder Vector Switching (PVS), Time-Switched Transmit Diversity(TSTD) and Cyclic-Delay Diversity (CDD)).

1. P-SS Sign

Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence of length 63 in frequency domain may be definedand used as a sequence of the P-SS. The ZC sequence is defined byEquation 12, a sequence element, n=31 that corresponds to a DCsubcarrier is punctured. In Equation 12, N_zc=63.

$\begin{matrix}{{d_{u}(n)} = e^{{- j}\frac{\pi\;{{un}{({n + 1})}}}{N_{ZC}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 12} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Among 6 RBs (=7 subcarriers) positioned at the center of frequencydomain, the remaining 9 subcarriers are always transmitted in zerovalue, which makes it easy to design a filter for performingsynchronization. In order to define total three P-SSs, the value ofu=29, 29 and 34 may be used in Equation 12. In this case, since 29 and34 have the conjugate symmetry relation, two correlations may besimultaneously performed. Here, the conjugate symmetry means Equation13. By using the characteristics, it is possible to implement one shotcorrelater for u=29 and 43, and accordingly, about 33.3% of total amountof calculation may be decreased.d _(u)(n)=(−1)^(n)(d _(N) _(ZC) _(−u)(n))*, when N _(ZC) is even number.d _(u)(n)=(d _(N) _(ZC) _(−u)(n))*, when N _(ZC) is oddnumber.  [Equation 13]

2. S-SS Sign

The sequence used for the S-SS is combined with two interleavedm-sequences of length 31, and 168 cell group IDs are transmitted bycombining two sequences. The m-sequence as the SSS sequence is robust inthe frequency selective environment, and may be transformed to thehigh-speed m-sequence using the Fast Hadamard Transform, thereby theamount of operations being decreased. In addition, the configuration ofSSS using two short codes is proposed to decrease the amount ofoperations of terminal.

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating two sequences in a logical regionbeing mapped to a physical region by being interleaved.

Referring to FIG. 11, when two m-sequences used for generating the S-SSsign are defined by S1 and S2, in the case that the S-SS (S1, S2) ofsubframe 0 transmits the cell group ID with the combination, the S-SS(S2, S1) of subframe 5 is transmitted with being swapped, therebydistinguishing the 10 ms frame boundary. In this case, the SSS sign usesthe generation polynomial x5+x2+1, and total 31 signs may be generatedthrough the circular shift.

In order to improve the reception performance, two different P-SS-basedsequences are defined and scrambled to the S-SS, and scrambled to S1 andS2 with different sequences. Later, by defining the S1-based scramblingsign, the scrambling is performed to S2. In this case, the sign of S-SSis exchanged in a unit of 5 ms, but the P-SS-based scrambling sign isnot exchanged. The P-SS-based scrambling sign is defined by six circularshift versions according to the P-SS index in the m-sequence generatedfrom the generation polynomial x5+x2+1, and the S1-based scrambling signis defined by eight circular shift versions according to the S1 index inthe m-sequence generated from the generation polynomial x5+x4+x2+x1+1.

The contents below exemplify an asynchronous standard of the LTE system.

-   -   A terminal may monitor a downlink link quality based on a        cell-specific reference signal in order to detect a downlink        radio link quality of PCell.    -   A terminal may estimate a downlink radio link quality for the        purpose of monitoring the downlink radio link quality of PCell,        and may compare it with Q_out and Q_in, which are thresholds.    -   The threshold value Q_out may be defined as a level in which a        downlink radio link is not certainly received, and may        correspond to a block error rate 10% of a hypothetical PDCCH        transmission considering a PCFICH together with transmission        parameters.    -   The threshold value Q_in may be defined as a downlink radio link        quality level, which may be great and more certainly received        than Q_out, and may correspond to a block error rate 2% of a        hypothetical PDCCH transmission considering a PCFICH together        with transmission parameters.

Narrow Band (NB) LTE Cell Search

In the NB-LTE, although a cell search may follow the same rule as theLTE, there may be an appropriate modification in the sequence design inorder to increase the cell search capability.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating a frame structure to which M-PSS andM-SSS are mapped. In the present disclosure, an M-PSS designates theP-SS in the NB-LTE, and an M-SSS designates the S-SS in the NB-LTE. TheM-PSS may also be designated to ‘NB-PSS’ and the M-SSS may also bedesignated to ‘NB-SSS’.

Referring to FIG. 12, in the case of the M-PSS, a single primarysynchronization sequence/signal may be used. (M-)PSS may be spanned upto 9 OFDM symbol lengths, and used for determining subframe timing aswell as an accurate frequency offset.

This may be interpreted that a terminal may use the M-PSS for acquiringtime and frequency synchronization with a BS. In this case, (M-)PSS maybe consecutively located in time domain.

The M-SSS may be spanned up to 6 OFDM symbol lengths, and used fordetermining the timing of a cell identifier and an M-frame. This may beinterpreted that a terminal may use the M-SSS for detecting anidentifier of a BS. In order to support the same number as the number ofcell identifier groups of the LTE, 504 different (M-)SSS may bedesigned.

Referring to the design of FIG. 12, the M-PSS and the M-SSS are repeatedevery 20 ms average, and existed/generated four times in a block of 80ms. In the subframes that include synchronization sequences, the M-PSSoccupies the last 9 OFDM symbols. The M-SSS occupies 6th, 7th, 10th,11th, 13th and 14th OFDM symbols in the case of normal CP, and occupies5th, 6th, 9th, 11th and 12th OFDM symbols in the case of extended CP.

The 9 OFDM symbols occupied by the M-PSS may be selected to support forthe in-band disposition between LTE carriers. This is because the firstthree OFDM symbols are used to carry a PDCCH in the hosting LTE systemand a subframe includes minimum twelve OFDM symbols (in the case ofextended CP).

In the hosting LTE system, a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) istransmitted, and the resource elements that correspond to the M-PSS maybe punctured in order to avoid a collision. In the NB-LTE, a specificposition of M-PSS/M-SSS may be determined to avoid a collision with manylegacy LTE signals such as the PDCCH, the PCFICH, the PHICH and/or theMBSFN.

In comparison with the LTE, the synchronization sequence design in theNB-LTE may be different.

This may be performed in order to attain a compromise between decreasedmemory consumption and faster synchronization in a terminal. Since theM-SSS is repeated four times in 80 ms duration, a slight designmodification for the M-SSS may be required in the 80 ms duration inorder to solve a timing uncertainty.

Structure of M-PSS and M-SSS

In the LTE, the PSS structure allows the low complexity design of timingand frequency offset measuring instrument, and the SSS is designed toacquire frame timing and to support unique 504 cell identifiers.

In the case of In-band and Guard-band of the LTE, the disposition of CPin the NB-LTE may be selected to match the CP in a hosting system. Inthe case of standalone, the extended CP may be used for matching atransmitter pulse shape for exerting the minimum damage to the hostingsystem (e.g., GSM).

A single M-PSS may be clearly stated in the N-LTE of the LTE. In theprocedure of PSS synchronization of the LTE, for each of PSSs, aspecific number of frequency speculations may be used for the coarseestimation of symbol timing and frequency offset.

Such an adaption of the procedure in the NB-LTE may increase the processcomplexity of a receiver according to the use of a plurality offrequency assumptions. In order to solve the problem, a sequenceresembling of the Zadoff-Chu sequence which is differentially decoded intime domain may be proposed for the M-PSS. Since the differentialdecoding is performed in a transmission process, the differentialdecoding may be performed during the processing time of a receiver.Consequently, a frequency offset may be transformed from the consecutiverotation for symbols to the fixed phase offset with respect to thecorresponding symbols.

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating a method for generating M-PSSaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 13, first, when starting with a basic sequence oflength 107 as a basis in order to generate an M-PSS, Equation 14 belowmay be obtained.

$\begin{matrix}{{{c(n)} = e^{\frac{j\;\pi\;{{un}{({n + 1})}}}{N},}}{n = \left\{ \;{0,1,2,\ldots\mspace{14mu},106} \right\}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 14} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

The basic sequence c(n) may be differentially decoded in order to obtaind(n) sequence as represented in Equation 15.d(n+1)=d(n)c(n),n={0,1,2, . . . ,106},d(0)=1,  [Equation 15]

The d(n) sequence is divided into 9 sub sequences, and each sub sequencehas a length 12 and a sampling rate of 130 kHz. The 120-point FFT isperformed for each of 9 sub sequences, and each sequence may beoversampled 128/12 times up to 1.92 MHz sampling rate using 128 IFFTzero padding. Consequently, each sub sequence may be mapped to 12subcarriers for 9 OFDM symbols, respectively.

Each of the sub sequences is mapped to a single OFDM symbol, and theM-PSS may occupy total 9 OFDM symbols since total 9 sub sequences areexisted. Total length of the M-PSS may be 1234(=(128+9)*9+1) when thenormal CP of 9 samples are used, and may be 1440 when the extended CP isused.

The M-PSS which is going to be actually used during the transmission isnot required to be generated every time using complex procedure in atransmitter/receiver in the same manner. The complexity coefficient(i.e., t_u(n)) that corresponds to the M-PSS may be generated inoffline, and directly stored in the transmitter/receiver. In addition,even in the case that the M-PSS is generated in 1.92 MHz, the occupationbandwidth may be 180 kHz.

Accordingly, in the case of performing the procedure related to time andfrequency offset measurements using the M-PSS in a receiver, thesampling rate of 192 kHz may be used for all cases. This maysignificantly decrease the complexity of receiver in the cell search.

In comparison with the LTE, the frequency in which the M-PSS isgenerated in the NB-LTE causes slightly greater overhead than the PSS inthe LTE. More particularly, the synchronization sequence used in the LTEoccupies 2.86% of the entire transmission resources, and thesynchronization sequence used in the NB-LTE occupies about 5.36% of theentire transmission resources. Such an additional overhead has an effectof decreasing memory consumption as well as the synchronization timethat leads to the improved battery life and the lower device price.

The M-SSS is designed in frequency domain and occupies 12 subcarriers ineach of 6 OFDM symbols. Accordingly, the number of resource elementsdedicated to the M-SSS may be 72. The M-SSS includes the ZC sequence ofa single length 61 which are padded by eleven ‘0’s on the startingpoint.

In the case of the extended CP, the first 12 symbols of the M-SSS may bediscarded, and the remaining symbols may be mapped to the valid OFDMsymbols, which cause to discard only a single symbol among the sequenceof length 61 since eleven ‘0’s are existed on the starting point. Thediscard of the symbol causes the slight degradation of the correlationproperty of other SSS.

The cyclic shift of a sequence and the sequence for different roots mayeasily provide specific cell identifiers up to 504. The reason why theZC sequence is used in the NB-LTE in comparison with the LTE is todecrease the error detection rate. Since a common sequence for twodifferent cell identifier groups is existed, an additional procedure isrequired in the LTE.

Since the M-PSS/M-SSS occur four times within the block of 80 ms, theLTE design of the SSS cannot be used for providing accurate timinginformation within the corresponding block. This is because the specialinterleaving structure that may determine only two positions.Accordingly, a scrambling sequence may be used in an upper part of theZC sequence in order to provide the information of frame timing. Fourscrambling sequences may be required to determine four positions withinthe block of 80 ms, which may influence on acquiring the accuratetiming.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating a method for generating M-SSSaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 14, the M-SSS may be defined ass_p,q(n)=a_p(n)·b_q(n). Herein, p={0, 1, . . . 503} represents cellidentifiers and q={0, 1, 2, 3} determines the position of the M-SSS(i.e., the number of M-SSS within the block of 80 ms which is generatedbefore the latest SSS). In addition, a_p(n) and b_q(n) may be determinedby Equations 16 and 17 below.

$\begin{matrix}{{{{{a_{p}(n)} = 0},{n = {{\left\{ {{0 - 4},{66 - 71}} \right\} ↵} = {a_{p}\left( {n - k_{p} - 5} \right)}}},{n = {\left\{ {5,6,\ldots\mspace{14mu},65} \right\} ↵}}}{a_{p}(n)} = e^{- \frac{j\;\pi\;{m{(p)}}{n{({n + 1})}}}{61}}},{n = {\left\{ {0,1,\ldots\mspace{14mu},61} \right\} ↵}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 16} \right\rbrack \\{{{{b_{q}(n)} = {b\left( {{mod}\left( {{n - l_{q}},63} \right)} \right)}}{n = \left\{ {0,1,{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 60}} \right\}},{q = \left\{ {0,1,2,3} \right\}},{l_{0} = 0},{l_{1} = 3},{l_{2} = 7},{l_{3} = {11↵}}}{{{b\left( {n + 6} \right)} = {{mod}\left( {{{b(n)} + {b\left( {n + 1} \right)}},2} \right)}},{n = \left\{ {0,1,{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 55}} \right\}},↵}{{{b(0)} = 1},{{b(m)} = 0},{m = {\left\{ {1,2,3,4,5} \right\} ↵}}}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 17} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

Referring to Equation 16, a_p(n) is the ZC sequence and determines acell identifier group. m(p) and cyclic shift k_p may be used forproviding a specific cell identifier. Referring to Equation 17, b_q(n)may be the scrambling sequence that includes a cyclic shift of the basicsequence b_(n), and may be used for indicating the position of the M-SSSin the M-frame in order to acquire the frame timing. The cyclic shiftl_q may be determined according to the value q.

The value of m(p) with respect to the specific p may be determined suchas m(p)=1+mod(p, 61), the value of k_p may be determined such ask_p=7[p/61].

FIG. 15 illustrates an example of a method for implementing M-PSS towhich the method proposed in the present disclosure can be applied.

Particularly, FIG. 15 shows a method for generating an M-PSS using acomplementary Golay sequence.

As shown in FIG. 15, using a complementary Golay sequence pair, a CGSthat is going to be transmitted to each OFDM symbol is selected (i.e.,select a(n) or b(n)).

Next, in the case of using a cover code, c(1) to c(N) may be multipliedto each CGS, and in the case of not using the cover code, 1 may beinputted to all of c(n).

Subsequently, the DFT and the IFFT are performed for each symbol, andtransmitted to each OFDM symbol on time domain.

Additionally, the ZC sequence of length 12 may also generate a sequencethat is going to be transmitted to each OFDM symbol.

In this case, by using the same method applied in FIG. 15, the M-PSS maybe implemented.

Operation System of the NB LTE System

FIG. 16 illustrates an example of an operation system of the NB LTEsystem to which the method proposed in the present disclosure can beapplied.

Particularly, FIG. 16(a) shows an In-band system, FIG. 16(b) shows aGuard-band system, and FIG. 16(c) shows a Stand-alone system.

The In-band system may be expressed by an In-band mode, the Guard-bandsystem may be expressed by a Guard-band mode, and the Stand-alone systemmay be expressed by a Stand-alone mode.

The In-band system shown in FIG. 16(a) is referred to as a system or amode in which a specific 1 RB in the legacy LTE band is used for theNB-LTE (or LTE-NB), and may be operated by allocating a part of theresource blocks of the LTE system carrier.

The legacy LTE band has the guardband of minimum 100 kHz in the lastpart of each LTE band.

In order to use 200 kHz, two non-contiguous guardband may be used.

The In-band system and the Guard-band system represent the structure inwhich the NB-LTE is coexisted in the legacy LTE band.

On the contrary, the Stand-alone system shown in FIG. 16(c) is referredto as a system or a mode which is independently constructed from thelegacy LTE band, and may be operated by separately allocating thefrequency band (the GSM reallocated carrier later) used in GERAN.

FIG. 17 illustrates an example of an NB-frame structure with respect to15 kHz subcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

As shown in FIG. 17, it is shown that the NB-frame structure for thesubcarrier spacing of 15 kHz is the same as the frame structure of thelegacy system (LTE system).

That is, the NB-frame of 10 ms includes ten NB-subframes of 1 ms, andthe NB-subframe of 1 ms includes two NB-slot of 0.5 ms.

FIG. 18 illustrates an example of an NB-frame structure with respect to3.75 kHz subcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

Referring to FIG. 18, the NB-frame of 10 ms includes five NB-subframesof 2 ms, and the NB-subframe of 2 ms includes seven OFDM symbols and aguard period (GP).

The NB-subframe of 2 ms may also be expressed by an NB-slot, anNB-resource unit (RU), or the like.

FIG. 19 illustrates an example of an NB subframe structure in 3.75 kHzsubcarrier spacing to which the method proposed in the presentdisclosure can be applied.

FIG. 19 shows the correspondence relation between the legacy LTEsubframe structure and the subframe structure of 3.75 kHz.

Referring to FIG. 19, it is shown that the subframe (2 ms) of 3.75 kHzcorresponds to two subframes of 1 ms (or TTI of 1 ms) of the legacy LTE.

Hereinafter, in the NB-IoT (or NB-LTE) system that supports the cellularInternet of Things (IoT) proposed in the present disclosure, theassistant information for using a legacy LTE Cell-specific ReferenceSignal (or Common Reference Signal; CRS) will be described in detail.

As described above, the Narrowband (NB)-LTE is referred to as a systemfor supporting low complexity and low power consumption that has thesystem bandwidth corresponding one Physical Resource Block (PRB) of theLTE system.

That is, the NB-LTE system may mainly be used in a communication schemefor implementing the IoT by supporting a device (or terminal) such asmachine-type communication (MTC) in a cellular system.

In addition, the NB-LTE system is not required to be allocated withadditional band by using the OFDM parameters same as the LTE system suchas the subframe spacing used in the conventional LTE system.

That is, the NB-LTE system has an advantage in that the frequency may beefficiently used by allocating 1 PRB of the legacy LTE system band forthe NB-LTE use.

The physical channel in the NB-LTE system will be expressed or called byadding prefix N- (or Narrowband-) in order to distinguish it from thephysical channel in the LTE system.

That is, the physical downlink channel in the NB-LTE system may bedefined as N-PSS/N-SSS, N-PBCH, N-PDCCH/N-EPDCCH, N-PDSCH and the like.

In the NB-IoT system, three operation modes including the in-band mode,the guard band mode and the stand-alone mode are defined.

As described above, the in-band mode is referred to as a mode thatprovides the NB-IoT service using the resource block in the LTEfrequency band.

The guard-band mode is referred to as a mode that provides the NB-IoTservice using the resource block which is not used in the guard-banddefined in the LTE frequency band.

The stand-alone mode is referred to as a mode that independentlyprovides the NB-IoT service using the GSM frequency band for the purposeof the GSM service and the potential frequency band for the IoT service.

In this case, in order to use the legacy CRS used in the conventionalLTE system in the in-band mode, a BS or a network should transmitadditional information or assistant information to NB-IoT terminals.

Accordingly, the present disclosure proposes an efficient method fortransmitting and receiving the additional information for using thelegacy CRS in the NB-IoT system.

Master Information Block (MIB) in the NB-LTE System

First, the basic information(s) included in the Master Information Block(MIB) in the NB-IoT or NB-LTE system will be described.

The Master Information Block (MIB) transmitted through a NarrowbandPhysical Broadcast Channel (N-PBCH) in the NB-LTE system includes theinformation (1) to (6) below.

(1) The 4 most significant bits of NB-IoT SFN

(2) The NB-SIB1 scheduling information

(3) The number of legacy CRS ports

(4) Frame structure indicator

(5) Deployment (operation) mode indicator

(6) Channel raster offset indicator

Among the information (1) to (6), the information (5) and (6) will bedescribed in more detail.

Operation Mode Indicator

First, with respect to the information (5), three modes including thein-band mode, the guard band mode and the stand-alone mode are existedin the operation mode of the NB-IoT system.

However, since same-PCI indicator may be divided into two typesdepending on ‘true’ or ‘false’ of the indicator, it may be configuredthat there are total four operation modes.

Herein, the same-PCI indicator may be an indicator that representswhether an NB-IoT carrier uses the same Physical Cell ID (PCI) as theE-UTRA carrier.

Here, ‘true’ value may be expressed by ‘1’ and ‘false’ value may beexpressed by ‘0’, otherwise, ‘true’ value may be expressed by ‘0’ and‘false’ value may be expressed by ‘1’.

Accordingly, the operation mode may be expressed in the length of 2bits. Table 3 below represents an example of an operation mode indicatorof the NB-LTE system.

TABLE 3 Index Operation mode (indicator) 0 In-band mode when the samePCI indicator is true 1 In-band mode when the same PCI indicator isfalse 2 Guard band mode 3 Stand-alone mode

Referring to Table 3, when an operation mode index is ‘0’, whichrepresents an in-band mode of the same Physical Cell ID (PCI), and whenan operation mode index is ‘1’, which represents an in-band mode whichis not the same Physical Cell ID (PCI).

Herein, the operation mode (indicator) index values (1 to 4) maycorrespond to ‘00’, ‘01’, ‘10’ and ‘11’, respectively.

Channel Raster Offset

Next, the information (6), that is, the channel raster offset will bedescribed in more detail.

The channel raster offset represents the minimum unit that a terminalread a resource. In the case of the LTE system, the channel rasteroffset has the value of 100 kHz.

A terminal sequentially monitors the frequency value as much as theavailable minimum frequency bandwidth (6 RBs, 1.08 MHz) in an intervalof a channel raster (e.g., 100 kHz).

The channel raster offset has four values including ±2.5 kHz (+2.5 kHz,−2.5 kHz) and ±7.5 kHz (+7.5 kHz, −7.5 kHz) as shown in FIG. 20.

These values may represent the value that is subtracted by a multiple ofinteger of 100 kHz on the basis of 100 kHz from the center frequency ofPRB.

Accordingly, the channel raster offset may be expressed by the length of2 bits, and the example therefor is as Table 4 below.

FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a channel raster offsetfor different system bandwidths proposed in the present disclosure.

Particularly, FIG. 20A represents the channel raster offset of ±2.5 kHzwith respect to an even system bandwidth, and FIG. 20B represents thechannel raster offset of ±7.5 kHz with respect to an odd systembandwidth.

In FIG. 20A and FIG. 20B, the left scale represents the channel rasterscale of 100 kHz, and the right scale represents the scale thatcorresponds to the center frequency of each PRB.

TABLE 4 Index Channel raster offset (kHz) 0 2.5 1 −7.5 2 7.5 3 −2.5

That is, in the NB-LTE system, in order to use the legacy CRSinformation, a BS transmits an MIB that includes an operation modeindicator and the channel raster offset information to a terminal.

FIG. 21 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving system information in the NB-IoT systemproposed in the present disclosure.

First, a terminal receives a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a BSthrough a narrowband (NB) (step, S2110).

The narrowband represents the system bandwidth that corresponds to 1Physical Resource Block (PRB) of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system,and includes 12 subcarriers.

In addition, the Narrowband Synchronization Signal includes a narrowbandprimary synchronization signal (N-PSS) and a narrowband secondarysynchronization signal (N-SSS).

Furthermore, the narrowband synchronization signal may be generated byusing the Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

The narrowband primary synchronization signal is received from the BSthrough contiguous 11 subcarriers among the 12 subcarriers.

Later, the terminal acquires the time synchronization and the frequencysynchronization with the BS based on the narrowband synchronizationsignal (step, S2120).

Additionally, the terminal may detect or determine an identifier of theBS.

Later, the terminal receives the system information related to theNB-IoT through a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel (N-PBCH) from theBS (step, S2130).

The system information may include at least one of the operation modeinformation that represents an operation mode of the NB-IoT system orthe channel raster offset information that represents a channel rasteroffset value.

The system information may be the Master Information Block (MIB).

The operation mode represents an In-band mode operated in the in-band,the guard-band mode operated in the guard-band and the stand-alone modeoperated in stand-alone.

Herein, the in-band mode may include a first in-band mode in which theNB-IoT system and the LTE system use the same Physical Cell ID (PCI) anda second in-band mode in which the NB-IoT system and the LTE system usedifferent Physical Cell IDs (PCIs).

The channel raster offset value may have +2.5 kHz, +7.5 kHz, −2.5 kHz or−7.5 kHz.

Assistant Information of Legacy CRS in MIB

The reason why the in-band mode is divided according to the same PCTindicator in Table 3 above is relate to the problem on whether thelegacy CRS is available to be used in the NB-IoT system.

That is, it may be configured that the legacy CRS is used when the samePCI indicator is ‘true’, but it may not be configured that the legacyCRS is used when the same PCI indicator is ‘false’.

In addition, when the same PCI indicator is ‘true’, the NB-IoT terminalshould know the sequence used in the legacy CRS transmitted to thecorresponding PRB in order to use the legacy CRS and the correspondinglegacy CRS sequence index.

That is, the NB-IoT terminal requires a slot number, an OFDM symbolnumber, a Cyclic Prefix (CP) shape, a cell ID, a system bandwidth, andso on, and also should know the index of the corresponding PRB.

In this case, although a slot number, an OFDM symbol number, a CyclicPrefix (CP) shape, a cell ID, and so on are the same for the NB-IoTsystem and the legacy LTE system, in the aspect of an NB-IoT terminal,it is required to know the legacy system bandwidth and the PRB indexadditionally.

That is, the NB-IoT terminal may know accurate legacy CRS sequence andthe corresponding legacy CRS sequence index using the legacy systembandwidth and the PRB index information.

Assuming that the NB-LTE system is operated in the in-band mode, as thePRB in which an N-PSS and an N-SSS may be transmitted, the PRBs thatmake an additional Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO) value be within ±7.5kHz should be selected.

The PRB indices that make an additional CFO value be within ±7.5 kHz areas represented in Table 5 below which are arranged for each systembandwidth.

Table 5 represents the legacy PRB indices with respect to different LTEsystem bandwidths.

TABLE 5 LTE system 3 5 10 15 20 bandwidth [MHz] PRBs in 15 25 50 75 100system bandwidth Legacy 2, 12 2, 7, 4, 9, 14, 2, 7, 12, 4, 9, 14, 19,24, PRB 17, 22 19, 30, 35, 17, 22, 27, 29, 34, 39, 44, indices 40, 4532, 42, 47, 55, 60, 35, 70, 75, 52, 57, 62, 80, 85, 90, 95 67, 72

In this case, the NB-IoT terminal additionally receives the informationof the legacy CRS from the BS through the Master Information Block (MIB)transmitted through an N-PBCH.

When the legacy CRS information is transmitted, the BS may transmit thesystem bandwidth and the PRB index information simultaneously to theterminal.

In the case that the system bandwidth and the PRB index information aresimultaneously transmitted, total 46 cases occur as represented in Table6 below.

Accordingly, 6 bits of the MIB are required to transmit the legacy CRSinformation.

Table 6 represents an example of a method for indicating the legacy CRSinformation (system bandwidth and PRB index) using 6 bits of the MIB.

TABLE 6 LTE Legacy system PRB Index bandwidth index 0 3 2 1 3 12 2 5 2 35 7 4 5 17 5 5 22 6 10 4 7 10 9 8 10 14 9 10 19 10 10 30 11 10 35 12 1040 13 10 45 14 15 2 15 15 7 16 15 12 17 15 17 18 15 22 19 15 27 20 15 3221 15 42 22 15 47 23 15 52 24 15 57 25 15 62 26 15 67 27 15 72 28 20 429 20 9 30 20 14 31 20 19 32 20 24 33 20 29 34 20 34 35 20 39 36 20 4437 20 55 38 20 60 39 20 65 40 20 70 41 20 75 42 20 80 43 20 85 44 20 9045 20 95

As another example of the method for transmitting the legacy CRSinformation, when a BS transmits the legacy CRS information to an NB-IoTterminal, it may be configured that the legacy CRS sequence indexinformation is transmitted instead of the system bandwidth and the PRBindex information.

In this case, the legacy CRS information may represent the legacy CRSsequence index information.

In the case of notifying the legacy CRS sequence index information asthe legacy CRS information, the legacy CRS sequence index may be dividedinto 32.

That is, the BS may transmit the legacy CRS information using 5 bits ofthe MIB to the terminal.

This method has the same concept of the method for dividing thecorresponding PRB by the frequency difference from the center frequencyto the DC of the corresponding system bandwidth and transmitting thecorresponding value (the frequency difference from the center frequencyto the DC of the corresponding system bandwidth).

Additionally, it may be configured that the channel raster offsetinformation described above is to be transmitted in the same way oftransmitting the legacy CRS information (legacy CRS sequence indexinformation).

That is, in Table 3 above, in the case that an index of the operationmode indicator is ‘0’ (i.e., in-band mode when the same PCI indictor istrue), it may be configured that the legacy CRS information and thechannel raster offset information is simultaneously transmitted using 5bits of the MIB, and in the case that an index of the operation modeindicator is ‘1’ and ‘2’, it may be configured that only the channelraster offset information is taken among the information transmitted by5 bits of the MIB.

As such, an example of the method for transmitting the legacy CRSinformation and the channel raster offset information simultaneouslyusing 5 bits of the MIB is represented as a table, as shown in Table 7below.

The method for transmitting the legacy CRS information using Table 7 hasan advantage of decreasing the bit number for transmitting the legacyCRS information within the MIB by 1 bit in comparison with the methodfor transmitting the legacy CRS information using Table 6.

And, in the case that an index of the operation mode indicator is ‘2’,it may be configured that the channel raster offset information istransmitted through one of predefined four cases among 32 indices inTable 7.

For example, it may be configured that the channel raster offsets of 2.5kHz, −7.5 kHz, 7.5 kHz and −2.5 kHz are transmitted using four indices14, 15, 16 and 17 of Table 7, respectively.

FIG. 22 and FIG. 23 may be easily derived through Table 7.

FIGS. 22 and 23 illustrate examples of the PRB index that shares thesame legacy CRS sequence index proposed in the present disclosure.

Particularly, FIG. 22 illustrates the indices of the PRB that shares thesame legacy CRS sequence index among the even system bandwidth.

In addition, FIG. 22 shows an example of the system bandwidth of whichchannel raster offset is ±2.5 kHz.

FIG. 23 illustrates the indices of the PRB that shares the same legacyCRS sequence index among the odd system bandwidth.

In addition, FIG. 23 shows an example of the system bandwidth of whichchannel raster offset is ±7.5 kHz.

That is, FIG. 22 shows the case of Table 7, which is arranged (orclassified) as the channel raster offset values first, and the secondchannel raster offset values are bound by ±2.5 kHz.

In addition, FIG. 23 shows the case that the arranged channel rasteroffset values are bound by ±7.5 kHz.

The ‘n’ values 2210 and 2310 shown in FIG. 22 and FIG. 23 mean thenumber of the PRB (except the PRB of which DC is pending on the center)existed at an upper side or a lower side of the DC among the total PRBnumbers that are available for each system bandwidth.

In this case, an NB-IoT terminal may acquire the information of thelegacy CRS by receiving the information that corresponds to frequencydifference from the DC of the corresponding system bandwidth through 5bits of the MIB.

Here, the information that corresponds to frequency difference from theDC of the corresponding system bandwidth may be represented by thelegacy CRS sequence index information.

This will be described in more detail by taking an example as below.

It is assumed that a terminal receives index 15 of Table 7 from a BSthrough the MIB.

The meaning of receiving index 15 of Table 7 may be the same concept ofreceiving PRB n−5 of FIG. 23 that shows the case that the channel rasteroffset values are bound by ±7.5 kHz (odd system bandwidth).

In this case, the terminal may obtain the legacy CRS information, thatis, the legacy CRS sequence index that may be used by using Equation 18below.

In the example, that is, in the case of index 15, it may be known thatthe legacy CRS sequence index is ‘99’.

That is, by checking ‘99’ through Table 7, ‘99’ is the same as thelegacy CRS sequence index value.

Here, the terminal may find out the corresponding legacy CRS sequenceindex value and two legacy CRS sequences belonged to the correspondingRB by including the legacy CRS sequence index value added by 1.

$\begin{matrix}{{m^{\prime} = {\left( {N_{RB}^{\max,{DL}} - i} \right) + \left( {f_{d} \times 2} \right)}},{i = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{0\mspace{14mu}{if}\mspace{14mu}{even}\mspace{14mu}{bandwith}} \\{1\mspace{14mu}{if}\mspace{14mu}{odd}\mspace{14mu}{bandwith}}\end{matrix} \right.}} & \left\lbrack {{Equation}\mspace{14mu} 18} \right\rbrack\end{matrix}$

In Equation 18, m′ represents a legacy CRS sequence index, N_(RE)^(max,DL) represents the largest downlink bandwidth configuration,‘110’, and f_(d) represents a relative value of the frequency differencefrom DC of the system information, and is ‘−5’ in the above example.

As another example, it is assumed that a terminal receives index 17 ofTable 7 from a BS through the MIB.

This is the same concept of receiving PRB n+5 of FIG. 22 that shows thecase that the items are bound between the items of which channel rasteroffset is ±2.5 kHz (even system bandwidth).

In this case, in the same way above, the terminal may obtain the legacyCRS sequence index that may be used by using Equation 18 above.

In the example (in the case of index 17), the legacy CRS sequence indexis ‘120’.

Referring to Table 7, ‘120’ is the same as the legacy CRS sequence indexvalue that corresponds to index 17. Herein, f_(d) becomes 5.

In more detail, f_(d) of Equation 18 above is (1) a value thatrelatively represents the difference from DC to the center frequency ofthe corresponding PRB in the case of the odd system bandwidth, (2) avalue that relatively represents the difference from DC to the smallerfrequency value among of a boundary value of the corresponding PRB inthe case of the even system bandwidth.

For example, in the case of the odd system bandwidth, the meaning thatf_(d) is −5 represents that the position apart as much as −5*180 (kHz)from DC (7.5 kHz which is a half of a subcarrier from 0 Hz should beadded) is the center frequency value of the corresponding PRB.

When this is checked using FIG. 23, it may be identified that the centerfrequency of the corresponding PRB is −907.5 kHz. Here, 180 kHzrepresents the bandwidth of 1 RB.

For another example, in the case of the even system bandwidth, themeaning that f_(d) is 5 represents that the position apart as much as5*180 (kHz) from the DC (7.5 kHz which is a half of a subcarrier from 0Hz should be added) is the frequency value of the position that has thesmaller frequency value among the boundary value of the correspondingPRB.

Referring to FIG. 22, it may be identified that the frequency value ofthe position that has the smaller frequency value among the boundaryvalues of the corresponding PRB is 907.5 kHz.

That is, since the center frequency of the PRB is 997.5 kHz, theboundary of the position smaller as much as 180/2 kHz becomes 907.5 kHz.

As another method, in the case that an index of the operation modeindicator is 0, it may be configured that a terminal receives the legacyCRS information and the channel raster offset information simultaneouslyusing 5 bits of the MIB from a BS.

And, in the case that an index of the operation mode indicator is not 0,it may be configured to transmit an channel raster offset indicator to aterminal using 2 bits of the MIB shown in Table 4 described above, andthe remaining 3 bits may be configured as reserved bits.

TABLE 7 Center Legacy (LTE system frequency Channel CRS bandwidth oflegacy raster sequence (MHz), Legacy PRB - DC offset Index index PRBindex) (kHz) (kHz) 0 18 (20, 4)  −682.5 2.5 1 28 (20, 9)  −607.5 2.5 238 (20, 14) −532.5 2.5 3 39 (15, 2)  −525.0 −7.5 4 48 (20, 19) −457.52.5 5 49 (15, 7)  −450.0 −7.5 6 58 (20, 24) −382.5 2.5 7 59 (15, 12)−375.0 −7.5 8 68  (10, 4) & (20, 29) −307.5 2.5 9 69 (15, 17) −300.0−7.5 10 78  (10, 9) & (20, 34) −232.5 2.5 11 79 (15, 22) −225.0 −7.5 1288 (10, 14) & (20, 39) −157.5 2.5 13 89  (5, 2) & (15, 27) −150.0 −7.514 98 (10, 19) & (20, 44) −82.5 2.5 15 99 (3, 2) & (5, 7) & (15, 32)−75.0 −7.5 16 119 (3, 12) & (5, 17) & (15, 42) 75.0 7.5 17 120 (10, 30)& (20, 55) 82.5 −2.5 18 129  (5, 22) & (15, 47) 150.0 7.5 19 130 (10,35) & (20, 60) 157.5 −2.5 20 139 (15, 52) 225.0 7.5 21 140 (10, 40) &(20, 65) 232.5 −2.5 22 149 (15, 57) 300.0 7.5 23 150 (10, 45) & (20, 70)307.5 −2.5 24 159 (15, 62) 375.0 7.5 25 160 (20, 75) 382.5 −2.5 26 169(15, 67) 450.0 7.5 27 170 (20, 80) 457.5 −2.5 28 179 (15, 72) 525.0 7.529 180 (20, 85) 532.5 −2.5 30 190 (20, 90) 607.5 −2.5 31 200 (20, 95)682.5 −2.5

FIG. 24 is a flowchart illustrating another example of a method fortransmitting and receiving system information in the NB-IoT systemproposed in the present disclosure.

First, a terminal receives a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a BSthrough a narrowband (NB) (step, S2410).

The narrowband represents the system bandwidth that corresponds to 1Physical Resource Block (PRB) of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.

Accordingly, the narrowband may correspond to 180 kHz.

The 1 PRB includes 12 contiguous subcarriers, and single subcarrierspacing may be 15 kHz in the case that the narrowband is 180 kHz.

The Narrowband Synchronization Signal includes a narrowband primarysynchronization signal and a narrowband secondary synchronizationsignal.

Furthermore, the narrowband synchronization signal may be generated byusing the Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

The narrowband primary synchronization signal is received from the BSthrough contiguous 11 subcarriers in the 1 PRB.

Later, the terminal acquires the time synchronization and the frequencysynchronization with the BS based on the narrowband synchronizationsignal (step, S2420).

Later, the terminal receives the system information related to theNB-IoT through a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel (N-PBCH) from theBS (step, S2430).

The system information may be a Master Information Block (MIB).

The system information may include at least one of the operation modeinformation that represents an operation mode of the NB-IoT system orthe control information that represents an index of the legacy CRSsequence.

Here, the control information is in relation to the Physical ResourceBlock (PRB) index in which the legacy CRS is transmitted.

In addition, the PRB index is in relation to the frequency differenceinformation between the center frequency of the PRB in which the legacyCRB is transmitted and a Direct Current (DC).

Furthermore, the control information may include a channel raster offsetvalue.

The channel raster offset value may have +2.5 kHz, +7.5 kHz, −2.5 kHz or−7.5 kHz.

The operation mode may include an In-band mode operated in the in-band,the guard-band mode operated in the guard-band and the stand-alone modeoperated in stand-alone.

The in-band mode may include a first in-band mode in which the NB-IoTsystem and the LTE system use the same Physical Cell ID (PCI) and asecond in-band mode in which the NB-IoT system and the LTE system usedifferent Physical Cell IDs (PCIs).

In addition, in the case of the first in-band mode, the controlinformation may be included in the system information.

Information Signaling for Additional Configured PRB

Next, the contents in relation to the PRB (or configured PRB) which isadditionally allocated in the case of using a plurality of NB-IoTcarriers.

As described above, in the NB-IoT system, an NB-IoT terminal (e.g.,NB-IoT UE) receives (or being transmitted) an NB-PSS, an NB-SSS, anNB-PBCH and a system information block (SIB) from a BS through aspecific PRB.

Here, the specific PRB is expressed as an ‘anchor PRB’.

The anchor PRB may be located in the in-band, in the guard-band and inthe stand-alone mode.

Meanwhile, in the NB-IoT system, a downlink transmission may usemultiple NB-IoT carriers.

Accordingly, the NB-IoT terminal may be allocated with an additional PRBfor the downlink transmission.

The additional PRB information may also be allocated for an uplinktransmission.

Here, the additionally allocated PRB is expressed as a ‘configured PRB’.

The configured PRB may also be expressed as or called a non-anchor PRB.

Considering the operation mode in the NB-IoT system, the correlationbetween the anchor PRB and the configured PRB may be arranged asfollowing 5 cases ((1) to (5)).

(1) In-band anchor PRB and In-band configured PRB

: represents the case that the operation mode of the anchor PRB is thein-band, and the operation mode of the configured PRB is the in-band.

(2) In-band anchor PRB and Guard band configured PRB

: represents the case that the operation mode of the anchor PRB is thein-band, and the operation mode of the configured PRB is the guard-band.

(3) Guard band anchor PRB and Guard band configured PRB

: represents the case that the operation mode of the anchor PRB is theguard-band, and the operation mode of the configured PRB is theguard-band.

(4) Guard band anchor PRB and In-band configured PRB

: represents the case that the operation mode of the anchor PRB is theguard-band, and the operation mode of the configured PRB is the in-band.

(5) Stand-alone anchor PRB and Stand-alone configured PRB

: represents the case that the operation mode of the anchor PRB is thestand-alone, and the operation mode of the configured PRB is thestand-alone.

With respect to the five cases above, the NB-IoT terminal should receivesignaling for the information of the configured PRB from the BS.

In this case, it may be configured that the information of theconfigured PRB is transmitted through a high layer (e.g., RRCsignaling).

For example, the information of the configured PRB may be included inCarrierConfigDedicated-NB information elements of Table 10 that will bedescribed below.

In this case, the information of the configured PRB may include anoperation mode indicator and the same PCI indicator.

In addition, the information of the configured PRB may further includethe following information according to an operation mode of each anchorPRB and an operation mode of the configured PRB.

First, in the case of case (1) (both of the operation modes of theanchor PRB and the configured PRB are the in-band mode) described above,it may be configured that the information of the configured PRB mayadditionally include an index information of the configured PRB.

Second, in the case of case (4) (an operation mode of the anchor PRB isthe guard-band mode and an operation mode of the configured mode is thein-band mode), it may be configured that the information of theconfigured PRB may additionally include the frequency offset informationbetween the anchor PRB and the DC frequency of the system bandwidth andan index information of the configured PRB.

Here, the reason why transmitting the frequency offset informationbetween the DC frequencies of the system bandwidth is that a terminalmay know a position of the configured PRB using the index information ofthe configured PRB only in the case that the terminal knows the DCfrequency.

Last, in the case of cases (2), (3) and (5) (an operation mode of theconfigured PRB is the guard-band mode or the stand-alone mode), it maybe configured that the information of the configured PRB mayadditionally include the center frequency value of the configured PRB.

This is because the configured PRB is operated in the guard-band mode orthe stand-alone mode, the PRB duration is not predetermined, differentfrom the case that the configured PRB is operated in the in-band mode.

Additionally, in the case that an operation mode in the configured PRBand an operation mode in the anchor PRB are different, it may beconfigured that the information on whether the PCI values thatcorrespond to each PRB (anchor PRB and configured PRB) are the same ordifferent may also be transmitted.

Here, the information on whether the PCI values that correspond to eachPRB (anchor PRB and configured PRB) are the same or different may beexpressed as the same PCI-indicator.

As an example of the method, in the case that a PCI in the anchor PRBand a PCI in the configured PRB are different, the information onwhether the PCI values that correspond to each PRB are the same ordifferent may be set to ‘1’, and in the case that a PCI in the anchorPRB and a PCI in the configured PRB are the same, the information onwhether the PCI values that correspond to each PRB are the same ordifferent may be set to ‘0’.

Or, on the contrary, in the case that a PCI in the anchor PRB and a PCIin the configured PRB are different, the information on whether the PCIvalues that correspond to each PRB are the same or different may be setto ‘0’, and in the case that a PCI in the anchor PRB and a PCI in theconfigured PRB are the same, the information on whether the PCI valuesthat correspond to each PRB are the same or different may be set to ‘1’.

Next, a method for transmitting the index information of the configuredPRB will be described in more detail.

As the first method for transmitting the index information of theconfigured PRB, it may be configured that the difference between thecenter frequency of the anchor PRB and the center frequency of theconfigured PRB, that is, the center frequency difference information istransmitted to an NB-IoT terminal.

Since the NB-IoT terminal synchronized with the anchor PRB already knowsthe index information of the anchor PRB, the NB-IoT terminal may knowthe index information of the configured PRB only with the centerfrequency difference information.

Considering the system bandwidth of 20 MHz, the length of the indexinformation of the configured PRB requires minimum 8 bits since about200 center frequency difference values are existed.

As the second method, it may be configured that the frequency differenceinformation from the center frequency of the configured PRB to DC of thecorresponding system bandwidth is transmitted to the NB-IoT terminal.

In this case, the method may be divided into following two casesaccording to an operation mode of the anchor PRB.

First, in the case that the anchor PRB is operated in the in-band mode,it is already known that the system bandwidth of the anchor PRB iseither even system bandwidth or odd system bandwidth.

Accordingly, a length of the frequency difference information which isrequired to the maximum requires minimum 7 bits, since 75 states areexisted considering the largest 15 MHz system bandwidth among the oddsystem bandwidth, and 100 states are existed considering the largest 20MHz system bandwidth among the even system bandwidth.

An example of the first method is represented as Table 8 below.

That is, Table 8 represents an example of the frequency difference valuefrom the center frequency of the configured PRB to DC of thecorresponding system bandwidth.

Second, a length of the frequency difference information which isrequired to the maximum in the case that the anchor PRB is operated inthe guard band mode requires minimum 8 bits, since 100 frequencydifference values are existed considering 20 MHz system bandwidth, and75 frequency difference values are existed considering additional 15 MHzsystem bandwidth.

As another method for notifying the index information of the configuredPRB, a method for notifying whether the index information is even systembandwidth or odd system bandwidth by MSB 1 bit in advance, and fornotifying the PRB index using Table 8 for the remaining 7 bits may beconsidered.

TABLE 8 Center Center frequency frequency of legacy of legacy PRB-DCPRB-DC (kHz) in (kHz) in odd system even system Index bandwidthbandwidth 0 −742.5 −555 1 −727.5 −540 2 −712.5 −525 3 −697.5 −510 4−682.5 −495 5 −667.5 −480 6 −652.5 −465 7 −637.5 −450 8 −622.5 −435 9−607.5 −420 10 −592.5 −405 11 −577.5 −390 12 −562.5 −375 13 −547.5 −36014 −532.5 −345 15 −517.5 −330 16 −502.5 −315 17 −487.5 −300 18 −472.5−285 19 −457.5 −270 20 −442.5 −255 21 −427.5 −240 22 −412.5 −225 23−397.5 −210 24 −382.5 −195 25 −367.5 −180 26 −352.5 −165 27 −337.5 −15028 −322.5 −135 29 −307.5 −120 30 −292.5 −105 31 −277.5 −90 32 −262.5 −7533 −247.5 −60 34 −232.5 −45 35 −217.5 −30 36 −202.5 −15 37 −187.5 0 38−172.5 15 39 −157.5 30 40 −142.5 45 41 −127.5 60 42 −112.5 75 43 −97.590 44 −82.5 105 45 −67.5 120 46 −52.5 135 47 −37.5 150 48 −22.5 165 49−7.5 −555 50 7.5 180 51 22.5 195 52 37.5 210 53 52.5 225 54 67.5 240 5582.5 255 56 97.5 270 57 112.5 285 58 127.5 300 59 142.5 315 60 157.5 33061 172.5 345 62 187.5 360 63 202.5 375 64 217.5 390 65 232.5 405 66247.5 420 67 262.5 435 68 277.5 450 69 292.5 465 70 307.5 480 71 322.5495 72 337.5 510 73 352.5 525 74 367.5 540 75 382.5 — 76 397.5 — 77412.5 — 78 427.5 — 79 442.5 — 80 457.5 — 81 472.5 — 82 487.5 — 83 502.5— 84 517.5 — 85 532.5 — 86 547.5 — 87 562.5 — 88 577.5 — 89 592.5 — 90607.5 — 91 622.5 — 92 637.5 — 93 652.5 — 94 667.5 — 95 682.5 — 96 697.5— 97 712.5 — 98 727.5 — 99 742.5 —

Table 9 below is an example of a radio resource control (RRC) messageincluding the index information of the configured PRB, and particularly,represents CarrierConfigDedicated-NB information elements.

The CarrierConfigDedicated-NB Information Element (IE) is used forembodying a non-anchor carrier in the NB-IoT system.

Here, the non-anchor carrier may represent the configured carrier or theconfigured PRB described above.

In addition, Table 10 below represents the description of each fieldrepresented in the CarrierConfigDedicated-NB of Table 9.

TABLE 9 -- ASN1START CarrierConfigDedicated-NB-r13 ::= SEQUENCE { dl-CarrierConfig-r13 DL-CarrierConfigDedicated-NB-r13, ul-CarrierConfig-r13 UL-CarrierConfigDedicated-NB-r13 }DL-CarrierConfigDedicated-NB-r13 ::= SEQUENCE {  dl-CarrierFreq-r13CarrierFreq-NB-r13,  downlinkBitmapNonAnchor-r13  CHOICE {  useNoBitmap-r13  NULL,   useAnchorBitmap-r13  NULL,  explicitBitmapConfiguration-r13   DL-Bitmap-NB-r13,   spare NULL }  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON  dl-GapNonAnchor-r13 CHOICE {   useNoGap-r13NULL,   useAnchorGapConfig-r13  NULL,   explicitGapConfiguration-r13 DL-GapConfig-NB-r13,   spare NULL  }  OPTIONAL, -- Need ON inbandCarrierInfo-r13 SEQUENCE {   samePCI-Indicator-r13  CHOICE{    samePCI-r13 SEQUENCE {      indexToMidPRB-r13  INTEGER (−55..54)    },     differentPCI-r13 SEQUENCE {      eutra-NumCRS-Ports-r13 ENUMERATED {same,  four}     }   } OPTIONAL,  -- Cond anchor-guardband  eutraControlRegionSize-r13  ENUMERATED {n1, n2, n3}  } OPTIONAL,  --Cond non-anchor-inband  ... } UL-CarrierConfigDedicated-NB-r13 ::=SEQUENCE {  ul-CarrierFreq-r13 CarrierFreq-NB-r13  OPTIONAL, -- Need OP ... } -- ASN1STOP

TABLE 10 CarrierConfigDedicated-NB field descriptions dl-CarrierConfigDownlink Carrier different from the anchor carrier used for all unicasttransmissions. If absent, the downlink carrier is the downlink anchorcarrier. dl-CarrierFreq DL carrier frequency. The downlink carrier isnot in a E-UTRA PRB which contains E-UTRA PSS/SSS/PBCH. dl-GapNonAnchorDownlink transmission gap configuration for the non-anchor carrier, seeTS 36.211 [21] and TS 36.213 [23]. downlinkBitmapNonAnchor Nb-IoTdownlink subframe configuration for downlink transmission on thenon-anchor carrier. eutraControlRegionSize Indicates the control regionsize of the E-UTRA cell for the in-band operation mode. Unit is innumber of OFDM symbols. If operationModeInfo in MIB-NB is set toinband-SamePCI or inband-DifferentPCI, it should be set to the valuebroadcast in SIB1-NB eutra-NumCRS-Ports Number of E-UTRA CRS antennaports, either the same number of ports as NRS or 4 antenna ports. See TS36.211 [21], TS 36.212 [22], and TS 36.213 [23]. inbandCarrierInfoProvides the configuration of a non-anchor inband carrier. If absent,the configuration of the anchor carrier applies. indexToMidPRB The PRBindex is signaled by offset from the middle of the EUTRA system.samePCI-Indicator This parameter specifies whether the non-anchorcarrier reuses the same PCI as the EUTRA carrier. ul-CarrierConfig Ifabsent, the uplink carrier is the uplink anchor carrier. ul-CarrierFreqUL carrier frequency if absent, the same TX-RX frequency separation asfor the anchor carrier applies

TABLE 11 Conditional presence Explanation non-anchor- The field isoptionally present, need OP, inband if the non-anchor carrier is aninband carrier; otherwise it is not present. anchor- The field ismandatory present, guardband if operationModeInfo is set to guardband inthe MIB; otherwise it is not present.

FIG. 25 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving downlink data through multiple NB-IoTcarriers in the NB-IoT system proposed in the present disclosure.

First, a terminal receives a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a BSthrough a first NB-IoT carrier (step, S2510).

The narrowband represents the system bandwidth that corresponds to 1Physical Resource Block (PRB) of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system,and 1 PRB includes 12 subcarriers.

The Narrowband Synchronization Signal includes a narrowband primarysynchronization signal and a narrowband secondary synchronizationsignal.

The first NB-IoT carrier may be expressed by an anchor PRB.

The narrowband synchronization signal is generated by using theZadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

The narrowband primary synchronization signal is received from the BSthrough contiguous 11 subcarriers among 12 subcarriers.

The contiguous 11 subcarriers are constructed by excluding a specificsubcarrier among the 12 subcarriers.

The specific subcarrier may be a subcarrier that has the smallestsubcarrier index or the greatest subcarrier index.

Later, the terminal acquires the time synchronization and the frequencysynchronization with the BS based on the narrowband synchronizationsignal (step, S2520).

Later, the terminal receives the system information related to theNB-IoT through the first NB-IoT carrier from the BS (step, S2530).

The system information may be a Master Information Block (MIB).

The system information may include at least one of the operation modeinformation that represents an operation mode of the NB-IoT system orthe channel raster offset indicator that represents a channel rasteroffset value.

The channel raster offset indicator may also be expressed by channelraster offset information.

The channel raster offset value may have +2.5 kHz, +7.5 kHz, −2.5 kHz or−7.5 kHz.

Later, the terminal is allocated with a second NB-IoT carrier from theBS (step, S2540).

Herein, the second NB-IoT carrier may also expressed by a configuredPRB.

Here, the terminal may be allocated with the second NB-IoT carrier byreceiving the information of the second NB-IoT carrier from the BSthrough high layer signaling.

The information of the second NB-IoT carrier further includes thecontrol information related to the PRB index of the second NB-IoTcarrier.

The control information may be the information that represents afrequency difference between the center frequency of the second NB-IoTcarrier and the Direct Current (DC).

The control information may include 100 state values.

The information of the second NB-IoT carrier may include at least one ofthe information that represents an operation mode of the second NB-IoTcarrier or the information that represents whether the second NB-IoTcarrier uses the same Physical Cell ID (PCI) as the legacy carrier.

Later, the terminal receives the downlink data through at least one ofthe first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoT carrier (step, S2550).

Method for Configuring Legacy PRB Indices for N-PSS

Next, the legacy PRB index configuration method for the N-PSS that has11 subcarriers will be described.

In the case that a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal (N-PSS) istransmitted through 11 subcarriers, the Carrier Frequency Offset (CFO)value additionally generated is different according to which subcarrieris excluded and the 11 subcarriers are used among the existing 12subcarriers (1 RB) for each system bandwidth.

Considering the even system bandwidth, it is preferable that the PRBsthat have the center frequency value smaller than the Direct Current areconfigured to transmit the N-PSS to 11 (#0 to #10) subcarriers except#11 subcarrier (2610) as shown in FIG. 26a . In this case, the CFO valueadditionally generated is 5 kHz.

As shown in FIG. 26b , in the case of transmitting the N-PSS to 11 (#1to #11) subcarriers except #0 subcarrier (2620), the CFO valueadditionally generated is increased to 10 kHz.

Next, it is preferable that the PRBs that have the center frequencyvalue smaller than the DC are configured to transmit the N-PSS to 11 (#1to #11) subcarriers except #0 subcarrier (2630) as shown in FIG. 26c .In this case, the CFO value additionally generated is 5 kHz.

As shown in FIG. 26d , in the case of transmitting the N-PSS to 11 (#0to #10) subcarriers except #11 subcarrier (2640), the CFO valueadditionally generated is increased to 10 kHz.

That is, FIG. 26 illustrates an example of a subcarrier selection methodfor transmitting the N-PSS in the even system bandwidth proposed in thepresent disclosure.

FIG. 27 illustrates an example of a subcarrier selection method fortransmitting the N-PSS in the odd system bandwidth proposed in thepresent disclosure.

Considering the odd system bandwidth, it is preferable that the PRBsthat have the center frequency value smaller than the DC are configuredto transmit the N-PSS to 11 (#1 to #11) subcarriers except #0 subcarrier(2710) as shown in FIG. 27a . In this case, there is no additionallygenerated CFO value.

As shown in FIG. 27b , in the case of transmitting the N-PSS to 11 (#0to #10) subcarriers except #11 subcarrier (2720), the CFO valueadditionally generated is increased to 15 kHz.

Next, it is preferable that the PRBs that have the center frequencyvalue greater than the DC are configured to transmit the N-PSS to 11 (#0to #10) subcarriers except #11 subcarrier (2730) as shown in FIG. 27c .In this case, there is no additionally generated CFO value.

As shown in FIG. 27d , in the case of transmitting the N-PSS to 11 (#1to #11) subcarriers except #0 subcarrier (2740), the CFO valueadditionally generated is increased to 15 kHz.

The PRB indices represented in Table 5 described above may be classifiedand arranged as represented in Table 11 below by using the methoddescribed in FIG. 26 and FIG. 27.

For reference, the frequency value of #0 subcarrier has the greatervalue than the frequency value of #10 subcarrier.

That is, the meaning of the subcarrier indices are mapped in theascending order means the subcarrier frequencies are mapped from greatervalues to smaller values, that is, in the descending order.

Table 12 represents the legacy PRB indices for different LTE systembandwidth.

TABLE 12 LTE system 3 5 10 15 20 bandwidth [MHz] PRBs in system 15 25 5075 100 bandwidth PRB indices with 12 17, 22 4, 9, 42, 47, 4, 9, 14, low11-subcarriers 14, 19 52, 57, 62, 19, 24, 29, (#0~#10) 67, 72 34, 39, 44PRB indices with 2 2, 7 30, 35, 2, 7, 12, 55, 60, 65, high11-subcarriers 40, 45 17, 22, 70, 75, 80, (#1~#11) 27, 32, 85, 90, 95

Referring to Table 12, for example, when the LTE system bandwidth is 5MHz, that is, the odd system bandwidth, the PRB indices available totransmit the N-PSS using 11 subcarriers including #0 to #10 subcarriers(the greatest subcarrier is not used) are 17 and 22, and the PRB indicesavailable to transmit the N-PSS using 11 subcarriers including #1 to #11subcarriers (the smallest subcarrier is not used) are 2 and 7.

FIG. 28 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a method fortransmitting and receiving a narrowband synchronization signal in theNB-IoT system proposed in the present disclosure.

First, a terminal receives a Narrowband Synchronization Signal from a BSthrough the narrowband (NB) (step, S2810).

The narrowband represents the system bandwidth that corresponds to 1Physical Resource Block (PRB) of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system.

Accordingly, the narrowband may correspond to 180 kHz.

The 1 PRB includes 12 contiguous subcarriers, and in the case that thenarrowband is 180 kHz, one subcarrier spacing may be 15 kHz.

The Narrowband Synchronization Signal includes a narrowband primarysynchronization signal and a narrowband secondary synchronizationsignal.

The narrowband synchronization signal is generated by using theZadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence.

The narrowband primary synchronization signal is received from the BSthrough contiguous 11 subcarriers within 1 PRB.

The contiguous 11 subcarriers are selected by excluding a specificsubcarrier among the 12 subcarriers within 1 PRB, as described in FIG.26 and FIG. 27.

Here, the specific subcarrier may correspond to a subcarrier that hasthe smallest subcarrier index or the greatest subcarrier index.

As described above, the excluded specific subcarrier may be selected byconsidering the CFO value which is additionally generated.

Later, the terminal acquires the time synchronization and the frequencysynchronization with the BS based on the narrowband synchronizationsignal (step, S2820).

General Apparatus to which the Present Invention May be Applied

FIG. 29 illustrates a block diagram of a wireless communicationapparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 29, the wireless communication system includes a BS(eNB) 2910 and a plurality of terminals (UEs) 2920 located within theregion of the BS 2910.

The BS 2910 includes a processor 2911, a memory 2912 and a radiofrequency (RF) unit 2913. The processor 2911 implements the functions,processes and/or methods proposed in FIGS. 1 to 28 above. The layers ofwireless interface protocol may be implemented by the processor 2911.The memory 2912 is connected to the processor 2911, and stores varioustypes of information for driving the processor 2911. The RF unit 2913 isconnected to the processor 2911, and transmits and/or receives radiosignals.

The terminal 2920 includes a processor 2921, a memory 2922 and a RF unit2923. The processor 2921 implements the functions, processes and/ormethods proposed in FIGS. 1 to 28 above. The layers of wirelessinterface protocol may be implemented by the processor 2921. The memory2922 is connected to the processor 2921, and stores various types ofinformation for driving the processor 2921. The RF unit 2923 isconnected to the processor 2921, and transmits and/or receives radiosignals.

The memories 2912 and 2922 may be located interior or exterior of theprocessors 2911 and 2921, and may be connected to the processors 2911and 2921 with well known means. In addition, the BS 2910 and/or theterminal 2920 may have a single antenna or multiple antennas.

The embodiments described so far are those of the elements and technicalfeatures being coupled in a predetermined form. So far as there is notany apparent mention, each of the elements and technical features shouldbe considered to be selective. Each of the elements and technicalfeatures may be embodied without being coupled with other elements ortechnical features. In addition, it is also possible to construct theembodiments of the present invention by coupling a part of the elementsand/or technical features. The order of operations described in theembodiments of the present invention may be changed. A part of elementsor technical features in an embodiment may be included in anotherembodiment, or may be replaced by the elements and technical featuresthat correspond to other embodiment. It is apparent to constructembodiment by combining claims that do not have explicit referencerelation in the following claims, or to include the claims in a newclaim set by an amendment after application.

The embodiments of the present invention may be implemented by variousmeans, for example, hardware, firmware, software and the combinationthereof. In the case of the hardware, an embodiment of the presentinvention may be implemented by one or more application specificintegrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digitalsignal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs),field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a processor, a controller, amicro controller, a micro processor, and the like.

In the case of the implementation by the firmware or the software, anembodiment of the present invention may be implemented in a form such asa module, a procedure, a function, and so on that performs the functionsor operations described so far. Software codes may be stored in thememory, and driven by the processor. The memory may be located interioror exterior to the processor, and may exchange data with the processorwith various known means.

It will be understood to those skilled in the art that variousmodifications and variations can be made without departing from theessential features of the inventions. Therefore, the detaileddescription is not limited to the embodiments described above, butshould be considered as examples. The scope of the present inventionshould be determined by reasonable interpretation of the attachedclaims, and all modification within the scope of equivalence should beincluded in the scope of the present invention.

The method has been described mainly with the example applied to 3GPPLTE/LTE-A system, but may also be applied to various wirelesscommunication systems except the 3GPP LTE/LTE-A system.

The present disclosure has an effect of utilizing resource efficientlyin the NB-IoT system by providing additional information or assistantinformation for using the legacy LTE CRS in the NB-IoT system.

The technical effects of the present invention are not limited to thetechnical effects described above, and other technical effects notmentioned herein may be understood to those skilled in the art from thedescription below.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for receiving downlink data in awireless communication system supporting a Narrow Band (NB)-Internet ofThings (IoT), the method performed by a terminal comprising: receiving anarrowband synchronization signal (NBSS) on a first NB-IoT carrier froma base station; acquiring, based on the NBSS, time synchronization andfrequency synchronization with the base station; receiving systeminformation related to the NB-IoT on the first NB-IoT carrier from thebase station; receiving information for a second NB-IoT carrier througha high layer signaling from the base station; receiving the downlinkdata on at least one of the first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoTcarrier from the base station, wherein the information for the secondNB-IoT carrier further includes control information related to aphysical resource block (PRB) index of the second NB-IoT carrier.
 2. Themethod of claim 1, wherein the control information is informationindicating a frequency difference between a center frequency of thesecond NB-IoT carrier and a Direct Current (DC).
 3. The method of claim2, wherein the control information includes 100 state values.
 4. Themethod of claim 2, wherein the information of the second NB-IoT carrierincludes at least one of first information indicating an operation modeof the second NB-IoT carrier or second information indicating whetherthe second NB-IoT carrier has same Physical Cell ID (PCID) as a legacycarrier.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first NB-IoT carrier isan anchor PRB, and wherein the second NB-IoT carrier is a configuredPRB.
 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the system information includesat least one of operation mode information that represents an operationmode of the NB-IoT system or a channel raster offset indicator thatrepresents a channel raster offset.
 7. The method of claim 1, whereinthe narrowband synchronization signal includes a narrowband primarysynchronization signal and a narrowband secondary synchronizationsignal.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the narrowband is a systembandwidth that corresponds to 1 Physical Resource Block (PRB) of LongTerm Evolution (LTE) system.
 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the 1 PRBincludes 12 subcarriers.
 10. The method of claim 9, wherein thenarrowband primary synchronization signal is received through 11consecutive subcarriers among the 12 subcarriers.
 11. The method ofclaim 10, wherein the 11 consecutive subcarriers are configured byexcluding a specific subcarrier among the 12 subcarriers.
 12. The methodof claim 11, wherein the specific subcarrier is a subcarrier with thelowest subcarrier index or the highest subcarrier index.
 13. A terminalfor receiving downlink data in a wireless communication systemsupporting a Narrow Band (NB)-Internet of Things (IoT), comprising: aRadio Frequency (RF) unit including a transceiver for transmitting andreceiving a radio signal; and a processor for controlling the RF unit,wherein the processor is configured to perform: receiving a narrowbandsynchronization signal (NBSS) on a first NB-IoT carrier from a basestation; acquiring, based on the NBSS, time synchronization andfrequency synchronization with the base station; receiving systeminformation related to the NB-IoT on the first NB-IoT carrier from thebase station; receiving information for a second NB-IoT carrier througha high layer signaling from the base station; and receiving the downlinkdata on at least one of the first NB-IoT carrier or the second NB-IoTcarrier from the base station, wherein the information for the secondNB-IoT carrier further includes control information related to aphysical resource block (PRB) index of the second NB-IoT carrier.